I'd rather have a daughter in a whorehouse than a son in the police force,' Esther used to rage to anyone who would listen.

So to make movies, if you're first goal is to make money, well you can! Make a tent-pole movie that China wants. But that's not the kind of thing that's really going to get your remembered. You're not going to change anything with that. You might become rich from it!

People who want to act rich when they're upper-middle class. They try too hard.

I understand why people want to look up their friends - usually they want to see what people they've wanted to have sex with look like.

If I died tomorrow I've accomplished what I set out to do in my life. I enjoy making my movies, I enjoy doing what I do. I have a nice life.

I would describe myself as a writer that hopes to take you into my world and help you feel a little safer.

I always feel bad when I meet celebrities and I can just tell every single thing about their personal life, I just say, "Well, they don't have friends. Or a therapist." Once you have both, you don't have to share everything with people, because then you don't have a private life, and then you're, I guess, a workaholic.