I have really good female friends. I've never bought the whole men-and-women-can't-be-friends thing. I think that's sort of nonsense.

It's really hard to be poor in New York - I was really poor when I lived in New York.

Well, I stopped drinking. That was actually a big deal. I didn't go through any harrowing rock-bottom experience. I just made a decision to stop drinking.

I like movies that are about real people in real time with real problems.

And as a filmmaker, I'm trying to unhook myself from this idea that unless you have a brilliant, long, enormously lucrative theatrical run, that your movie somehow failed. And I don't believe that.

I learned to choose my battles. Sometimes I let my producer deal with something that I didn't want to deal with.

It never made sense to me that someone would achieve any kind of success in show business, only to become a jerk.