What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.

But I always say, one's company, two's a crowd, and three's a party

I think the first photograph I did was a ballplayer. It was a way of showing action or something.

If there's ever a problem, I film it and it's no longer a problem. It's a film.

Whenever I’m interested in something, I know the timing’s off, because I’m always interested in the right thing at the wrong time. I should just be getting interested after I’m not interested any more.

What I was actually trying to do in my early movies was show how people can meet other people and what they can do and what they can say to each other. That was the whole idea: two people getting acquainted.

My style was always to spread out rather than to move up.