Sometimes I feel like every movie I make could be the last. I know that's not really the case, but if I think about it that way and I'm very careful, then maybe I can build a career, movie by movie, that I'm happy with.

In New York, as long as you're not peeing in someone's doorway, everyone thinks you're a gentleman.

In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.

Sometimes in the middle of a presidential campaign, there's a political movie, and people are sick of hearing about politics, and they don't want to see that movie. They'd rather see "Godzilla."

I'd like to never be able to get pigeonholed, which is difficult to do.

I read the book and I think, "Well, this is the movie we're going to make," and then someone else reads it, and they take a completely different movie from it. And both are valid.

I think that the movies I do are the ones that I really like the least. I don't like watching them because of that problem.