Without love, most of life remains concealed. Nothing is as fascinating as love, unfortunately.

Please remove your watch,' he said. 'In my domain time isn't a factor.

Harvey [Weinstein] didn't want to release [MY SON THE FANATIC]; he held it for two years because he wanted a happy ending, although I don't know what that means. Does that mean the taxi driver leaves his wife or doesn't leave his wife? I think it has a happy ending.

The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.

These days everyone was insisting on their identity, coming out as a man, woman, gay, black, Jew - brandishing whichever features they could claim, as if without a tag they wouldn’t be human.

You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire.

Love cannot be measured by its duration.