Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.

To see a comedy in an environment where you're surrounded by other people that are laughing is great. That's probably more satisfying than just watching it by yourself.

If I knew that, I'd fall in love over and over again. Hearts aren't supposed to be mended. If you fall in love and it doesn't work out, you get a broken heart. What comes out of that will make you a better lover and partner next time.

But I remember feeling as a producer I felt like the guy who called the caterer and got the band; I had to work the party while everybody else was having a good time.

My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound.

On every movie I’ve done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don’t envy them, at all.

If movies are set in New York, they really should be shot in New York.