You can be aware that something is idiosyncratic, and give it to a character, but keep doing it.

I think I've always been drawn to the notion of talk as cinematic.

Being articulate, my parents could make anything sound reasonable.

Adaptations are fun for me because they connect to the idea of filmmaking I had when I was a kid. I would see a movie and think: 'I'm gonna make that movie.'

A lot of black-and-white films generally have a color version that will be used for TV.

The real achievement of Woody Allen was that he was making movies that felt very personal, and for a whole group of people, it spoke to them. Then he became an archetype, like Groucho Marx or Chaplin.

I like to try to shoot in the city in a way that allows the city to go about its business while we're shooting, and that's always a challenge because unfortunately people on the street don't know not to look in the camera or interact with the actors.