I am told the settlement of $5 million I am being paid is the largest amount ever paid under the New York right to privacy law

You make a film and always hope you're going make "Citizen Kane" or "The Bicycle Thief." You make the film, and for one reason or another, one clicks and one doesn't, but it's out of your control completely.

Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough. As you climb the ladder of success, be sure it's leaning against the right building. Eighty percent of success is showing up.

That’s one of the nice things about writing, or any art; if the thing’s real, it just lives.

All literature is a footnote to Faust. I have no idea what I mean by that.

I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.

Real life is generally much duller and inevitably sadder, most of the time. In film, you control everything that's going on, so you can indulge the most fantastic, romantic, escapist feelings and fantasies. You can do anything you want. That's why it's very seductive and pleasurable to earn your living making movies because you're not living in the real world.