Drinking wine is just a part of life, like eating food.

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.

I've been offered lots of movies. There's always some actor who's doing a project and would like to have me do it.

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.

I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant.

If the movie works, nobody notices the mistakes... If the movie doesn't work, the only thing people notice are mistakes.

I know that if a film is ready to emerge out of what I write, I'll be able to go off and make it without asking anyone's permission.