Dad, girls don't fall down every time they run.

When I was a kid, I was taken to something called Telenews in Cleveland by my best friend's father. My own father was gone by the time I was 5, I think, but this man would take us to Telenews at the end of World War II, and we'd watch all these newsreels. I'd seen real stuff. That kind of stuck in my mind.

I think the important thing about staying creative and staying sharp and original is not to look back too much.

I think that there has been a slow recognition that there's a mind at work here, and there's a skill and some bit of artistry, and that I could probably do other things. Otherwise, I don't know that I would've been given the opportunity to do Paris, Je T'Aime.

The first monster that an audience has to be scared of is the filmmaker. They have to feel in the presence of someone not confined by the normal rules of propriety and decency.

A collection of masks, depicting historical figures in life and what I like to call the eternal repose.

I learned to take the first job that you have in the business that you want to get into. It doesn't matter what that job is, you get your foot in the door.