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 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.

In America, people rarely stay in the town where they grew up, rarely stay in close proximity to their parents throughout their lives. You rarely find parents in their old age being taken care of by their children.

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.

People who go for humor are wonderful because they do great humor. People who go for wit and end up with humor are people who have made a mistake.

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.

Style is a way of talking about yourself.