I'm not hard to get along with.

A lot of people can't remember things because they weren't actually there to begin with - they don't take it all in.

The only way to break a bad habit was to replace it with a better habit.

The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.

There's a period just before you start a movie when you start thinking, I don't know what in the world I'm going to do. It's free-floating anxiety. In my case, though, this is over by lunch the first day of shooting.

I love writing, but I stopped because I felt I was more effective approaching filmmaking from a different vantage point.

You look at someone long enough, you discover their humanity.