The true test of maturity is not how old a person is but how he reacts to awakening in the mid-town area in his shorts.

My mother never had time for me. When you're the middle child in a family of five million, you don't get any attention.

I feel about New York as a child whose father is a bank robber. Not perfect, but I still love him.

New York is my home and I have a particular fondness for it. I think it's a place where you can generate any kind of story wonderfully. But I also would be very happy to make a film in Paris or Rome.

I'm not saying I didn't enjoy myself, but I didn't.

A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.

Can you believe that? She says I'm not leader enough for her. Who was she looking for... Hitler?