When you're writing for the screen, you have to be hyper-conscious every moment of how the audience is going to react. If you write just one scene where the audience is confused or it breaks their concentration in some way, then you've lost them, and you might never get them back.

Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.

If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.

They lived in a great city, a metropolis of many narratives that converged briefly and then separated for ever, discovering their different dooms in that crowd of stories through which all of us, following our own destinies, had to push and shove to find our way through, or out.

There is no such thing as perfect security, only varying levels of insecurity.

The time-honored role of the artist [is] to speak truth to power.

I do think that there is such a thing as human nature, and that the things that we have in common are perhaps greater than the things that divide us.