A lot of what I'm obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father.

Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way.

I prefer people who don't get caught, and if they do get caught, I prefer people who don't give in.

There are two kinds of power you have to fight. The first is the money, and that's just our system. The other is the people close around you, knowing when to accept their criticism, knowing when to say no.

I think what happened there was just the budget would be too big to build these sets because nothing really exists here in New York of that period; you have to build it all.

I wouldn't presume to be God's point of view.

Oh, the foghorns... even the foghorns, they're all brass. It's something by Ingrid Marshal called Fog Tropes. It's not a sound effect. It's an actual piece of music. If you listen to what's going on after he has a flashback about his wife you'll hear... it sounds like the humpback whales in a way. But it's all music. And we use it again later, too.