You'll live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to.

I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys.

I can't with any conscience argue for New York with anyone. It's like Calcutta. But I love the city in an emotional, irrational way, like loving your mother or your father even though they're a drunk or a thief. I've loved the city my whole life - to me, it's like a great woman.

As I got more confident, I was able to let actors improvise, and do long takes. It's 10%, 5% you learn and experience. The rest you just have or you don't have.

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.

Some guy hit my fender, and I told him, 'Be fruitful and multiply,' but not in those words.

Life is hard for insects. And don't think mice are having any fun either.