Always do things the least interesting way, the most blunt way, and you make a better movie. This is my experience.

I like Bach. I like Randy Newman.

I've always been fascinated by the picaresque.

I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else.

The realization that I came to is that each citizen for himself or herself understands the economics, which is, "I better make more than I spend and I better put something aside for a rainy day, and I want to get a good idea about what to do with the surplus so that perhaps it can grow while I'm sleeping." And that that's capitalism. Everybody practices it, but half of the country - those on the left - deny that it's true.

We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.

A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.