I think kids growing up, if they were picked on and feeling inferior at 12, they're going to feel that way at 72. You just deal with it better. I'm serious.

You're a disease. And I'm the cure.

It's great the way the old-time directors used to manipulate the hell out of you. You see someone dying and all of a sudden a ghost would come out and they go walking hand in hand up the stairway.

Lighting can bring out certain contours in the body, in the face, in the eyes, that otherwise flat lighting couldn't.

You are what you leave behind.

I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works.

I love being so tight on people in close-ups that the veins in their eyes look like the Mississippi River.