I don't know what I'm doing, but my incompetence has never stopped my enthusiasm.

It's just gossip, you know. Gossip is the new pornography.

My parents were very Old World. They come from Brooklyn, which is the heart of the Old World. Their values in life are God and carpeting.

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.

The less I speak to the actors, the better. And I always hire great people, and I don't want to impose my pre-conceived notions on them. They know how to play it.

Is it better to be the lover or the loved one? Neither, if your cholesterol is over six hundred. By love, of course, I refer to romantic love -- the love between man and woman, rather than between mother and child, or a boy and his dog, or two headwaiters.

When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.