You feel alive to the degree that you feel you can help others.

You can't control the quality of projects that are coming to you, so if you get several in a row that are quality, you take them.

Good writing is good writing, but that doesn't mean you can't orchestrate it or tweak it.

I've always slightly regretted not taking up Chicago.

I was just thinking of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and how young they were when they died. I would like to be a pop icon who survives. I would like to be a living icon.

When I was a very little boy I lived underneath the air pattern of LaGuardia airport in New York and I watched the planes fly to their destinations. I was in love with the design of these airplanes.

I have 12 paintings of Kaufman art. He is an amazing artist.