If you have a child who is seven feet tall, you don't cut off his head or his legs. You buy him a bigger bed and hope he plays basketball.

Retirement? You're talking about death, right?

We make too much of the good and too much of the bad.

Happy endings are absolutely ludicrous, they're not true at all. We see the guy carry the girl across the threshold and everybody lives happily ever after -- that's bullshit. Three weeks later he's beating her up and she's suing for divorce and he's got cancer.

I have never made a movie that's attracted a 14-year-old boy.

It's all just one film to me. Just different chapters.

Jazz has endured because it doesn't have a beginning or an ending. It's a moment.