That's the kind of movie that I like to make, where there is an invented reality and the audience is going to go someplace where hopefully they've never been before. The details, that's what the world is made of.

I just now put [Robert Altman] down feeling heartbroken but happily and deeply inspired. . . . Wonderful.

Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I've never been down before is like going to a movie.

A prototype is always more expensive than anything.

I wouldn't say that I'm particularly bothered or obsessed with detail.

There's no story if there isn't some conflict. The memorable things are usually not how pulled together everybody is. I think everybody feels lonely and trapped sometimes. I would think it's more or less the norm.

I don't know what is in store for the movie business any better than anybody else does, but it does seem like my kind of movies are a little trickier than it used to be - or maybe a lot trickier.