If you're not failing, you're not trying anything.

I've always had an easy time directing actors because I always hire ones that are great before I get my hands on them.

Rather than live on in the hearts and minds of my fellow man, I would rather live on in my apartment.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

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.

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.

The heart wants what it wants. There's no logic to these things. You meet someone and you fall in love and that's that.