I wanted to actually make people look at a painting. We don't look at paintings that much. We glance at them.

You tend to get a script and you push it toward being the kind of film you want to make.

I collect postage stamps. That's the only thing I can afford to collect! I hope in five years' time to say, "Yes, I specialize in Gustav Dore first editions."

I've got a very wide taste in art. I like Russian icon painters. I like Salvador Dali. It's like music. Sometimes you want to hear Led Zeppelin, and sometimes you want to hear Stravinsky. It just depends.

I don't want people to pigeonhole me.

Once a movie goes out into the world, it belongs to anyone who goes to see it.

I saw an awful lot of actresses, and some of them, you thought should be hospitalized. [They] should certainly eat a hamburger, for godsake.