You always think another time would have been ideal for you . . . the reality is there was no novocaine when you went to the dentist.

A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.

You make films whether they're dramas or comedies about neurotic people. Flawed people. Interesting personality traits. To make them about calm, stable untroubled people isn't interesting.

For some reason I've always had an irrational love for New York. There's no reason that you would necessarily like it on paper. It's very expensive.

I don't respond well to mellow, you know what I mean, I have a tendency to... if I get too mellow, I ripen and then rot.

Figures tell us there are already more people on earth than we need to move even the heaviest piano.

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.