The things you get fired for when you’re young are the same things that you get lifetime achievement awards for when you’re old.

I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.

The internet in hotels should be free - and I really resent it when they charge you five dollars for a bottle of water beside your bed.

In America, even the critics - which is a pity - tend to genre-ize things. They have a hard time when genres get mixed. They want to categorize things. That's why I love Wes Anderson's films and the Coen Brothers, because you don't know what you're going to get, and very often you get something that you don't expect and that's just what a genre's not supposed to do.

They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd be sure to have some dough to support my family.

It takes no imagination to live within your means.

Lots of people have criticized my movies, but nobody has ever identified the real problem: I'm a sloppy filmmaker.