Figures tell us there are already more people on earth than we need to move even the heaviest piano.

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.

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

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

Paranoia is knowing all the facts.

For the first year of marriage I had basically a bad attitude. I tended to place my wife underneath a pedestal.

I'd like to make a great movie. I've made many movies. I think I've made some good movies, but I never felt I've made a great movie.