[Stanley] Kubrick was a great artist and a perfectionist. He always wanted the exact right thing. He did a million takes. Everything had to be perfect. I'm an imperfectionist. I don't really care that much about the work. I write quickly. I'm careless. I shoot carelessly.

I was in analysis for years because of a traumatic childhood; I was breast-fed through falsies.

The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small.

You look up after many years and you find that a film has become a classic because it's meaningful to people and alive, decade after decade.

I think crime pays. The hours are good, you travel a lot

Achilles only had an Achilles heel, I have an entire Achilles body.

Visually I've always liked the 20s 30s for film. I do these because I like the music. I like the clothes. I like the way the women and the guys look. There are soldiers and sailors and gangsters with the machine guns in their violin cases. It's a very colorful era of New York, full of great theater and great nightclubs and great jazz.