Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you're working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience.

There's a way that the force of disappointment can be alchemized into something that will paradoxically renew you.

Watching a Kubrick film is like gazing up at a mountaintop. You look up and wonder, how could anyone have climbed that high?

Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was.

Well the thing is that the New York of 1846 to 1862 was very different from downtown New York now. Really nothing from that period still exists in New York.

Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. Let the learning continue.

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.