The greatest style is when you can't see the style though you walk away knowing it was there. It's like a perfume - there but not there.

My next film is always shaped by the last one... by the things I feel I didn't get right, or the things I like and want to try to develop further, but it always comes out of the last picture.

I was dyslexic before anybody knew what dyslexia was. I was called 'slow'. It's an awful feeling to think of yourself as 'slow' - it's horrible.

Everybody thought New York was this hard, cruel place, and I found it to be an extraordinarily wonderful place filled with the most interesting people.

My education was an education by movies.

The thing I loved the most about being art director was picking the photographers and working with them.

Style and taste do not have anything to do with the other. It's the difference between wit and humor.