Although I had a few jobs that I didn't like, or quit, or got fired from, I really loved New York from the moment I got here and I never stopped.

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.

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

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.

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.

Beauty doesn't have anything to do with prettiness. Beauty has to do with something else; it gets into an area where words can't go.