When I was growing up in New York City, my father was a taxi driver for a time.

I don't want to live in a bubble, in my craft or in the world... I can't, I would be cheating myself out of my generation and the world we live in.

You can only be a virgin once. There can only be one first time.

I know I've made the right decision when I've followed my heart.

I don't really know how to relate to a long-term day-in day-out kind of comfortable relationship.

Catholics have guilt and Jews have guilt, fine. But mothers can trump them all.

I think that directing is the ultimate martyred task of filmmaking, that it has nobility to it. It takes three years to make a film, for the most part. I think it requires the attentiveness of a mother hen.