I almost never try to make the audience comfortable. I wouldn't want that if I were in the audience.

There is not much irony when people are being happy on screen.

I have always loved Scottish music - all sorts of Celtic, Gaelic music.

Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

I had piano lessons when I was a kid, like most people. And hated them, like most people. And quit, like most people.

I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards.