I wish my parents had raised me in Manhattan because I think it's the greatest thing you can do for a kid is to raise them in New York City. I can see this with my own children.

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

All things are possible, except skiing through a revolving door.

Visually I've always liked the 20s 30s for film. I do these because I like the music. I like the clothes. I like the way the women and the guys look. There are soldiers and sailors and gangsters with the machine guns in their violin cases. It's a very colorful era of New York, full of great theater and great nightclubs and great jazz.

I was raised in the Jewish tradition, taught never to marry a Gentile woman, shave on a Saturday night and, most especially, never to shave a Gentile woman on a Saturday night.

The curtain rises on a vast primitive wasteland, not unlike certain parts of New jersey.

I have no idea what I am doing but incompetence has never prevented me from plunging in with enthusiasm.