I guess of all those novels, Don DeLillo's Falling Man is the one I like the best. I thought there were some beautiful things in that, particularly the relationship between the man who finds the briefcase and the woman whose husband owned the briefcase. It's quite a beautiful passage.

Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.

Fiction creating reality.

Having made films, I know very well that the scope of the average 90- to 120-minute movie is about the same narrative heft as a long short story or a novella.

There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.

If the world weren't such a beautiful place, we might all turn into cynics

It's always a mystery to me, I have to confess. I've never been able to witness the birth of an idea. It seems as if one second, there's nothing particularly going on, and the next second, something is there.