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.

I foresee death by culture shock.

It's funny. Maria Elena and I, we are meant for each other and not meant for each other, it's a contradiction.

Inertia accounts for two-thirds of marriages. But love accounts for the other third.

There's nothing good about getting older-absolutely nothing-because the amount of wisdom and experience you gain is negligible compared to what you lose. You do gain a couple of things-you gain a little bittersweet and sour wisdom from your heartbreaks and failures and things-but what you lose is so catastrophic in every way.

Honey, there's a spider in your bathroom the size of a Buick.

Standing in a garage no more makes you a car than standing in a church makes you a Christian.