Manhattan is so tailored. It's driven by appealing to the very wealthy and tourists.

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 get a lot of responses to my movies. Some people say, 'Oh, I thought it was really funny - I hope that's okay!' And my answer always is 'Yes. It's totally okay.'

I really like my first movie a lot, "Kicking and Screaming." I think it's a - I'm very pleased and proud of that movie, but it wasn't the - it wasn't "Citizen Kane" right out of the box, you know? It wasn't "Sex, Lies and Videotape."

It's nice being friends over a period of time with people whose music you like so much, or other filmmakers, seeing people change, go through trials

That's the nice thing about collaborating with someone: Your work becomes a conversation.

It's near impossible to make a movie in black and white in the system.