Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.

When I first started, there were writers that I looked up to that I felt very influenced by and very respectful toward their work and their opinion of my work.

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'm awash in self-contempt!

You can't anticipate in the room the riches of what you encounter when you're location hunting for a movie.

I do believe that reality is dreadful and that you are forced to choose it in the end or go crazy, but that it kills you.

Paris is a very exciting city. I learned about Paris the same way that Americans do: from the movies.