Other people have worked with big studios and maintained control over their movies. I see no reason why it wouldn't work for me.

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

Defining yourself by your taste is easier than defining yourself by any genuine stance on something.

There was a telemarketing job one summer in high school that I was rejected for. I still walk by the building that I actually had the interview in. It's still in New York, and I always think about that job and why I didn't get it.

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 live in Manhattan now, because, in a way, it was my fantasy.

I'm interested in music as an extension of character.