A dream that you don't fight for can haunt you for the rest of your life.

Those moments in between the moments, those are the most interesting. What's unspoken, the way we talk around things, the way our actions are inconsistent with what we're feeling, how anger and affection manifest themselves in strange ways at inappropriate times.

Every character, no matter who you play, at times is pretending to be somebody else. People have a public face and a private face.

As a director you have to be careful you don't over-design the film. You have to be careful that the period aspect does not take over.

I've been playing the father of teenagers for years. People always thought that I was 40 when I was 26. Once you lose your hair, they're like "Oh! He's really old now."

I love directing - it's always so involving, so challenging.

Like Joseph Mitchell, I would scour the streets of New York and find little pieces of what other people think of as junk - and collect it.