My grandfather was a very insignificant man, actually. At his funeral his hearse followed the other cars.

Do I believe in God? I did until Mother's accident. She fell on some meat loaf and it penetrated her spleen.

I like filming in New York a lot myself, but London is accommodating to me; the weather's very good there and the conditions for shooting and the financial conditions, the artistic conditions are good, so it's a pleasant place to shoot.

I consider myself a completely lucky filmmaker. I've had nothing but good luck. Everything I've needed has come my way.

There's no point in looking back, because there's nothing you can really do to improve the film. You can only aggravate and wish you had done stuff better.

One man starving puts a crimp in my evening.

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.