“My life was my life; I would have to stare it down, somehow, and make it work for me.”

“I would have given him everything. I would have pulled down planets to make our life work.”

“Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.”

“I would give the world to have one more person for whom I would lay down my life.”

“I don't know how to choose work that illuminates what my life is about. I don't know what my life is about and don't examine it. My life will define itself as I live it. The movies will define themselves as I make them. As long as the theme is something I care about at the moment, it's enough for me to start work. Maybe work itself is what my life is about.”

“Making money for my clones, now that’s what I call self-enrichment. Having all my clones working for me, working for free, and enriching me, now that’s what I call social progress. Ah, but that’s life, no?”