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

Connection is what one is after in probably most media, but certainly in film, which is an immersive medium.

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

I dont find myself lobbying for projects. Filmmakers almost always come to me.

Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living.

A carefree quality is a whole aspect of life that I will never understand. I don't think I have ever been carefree and can't see the pleasure of it.

On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.