For some reason I've always had an irrational love for New York. There's no reason that you would necessarily like it on paper. It's very expensive.

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.

I had a mad impulse to throw you down on the lunar surface and commit interstellar perversion with you.

I believe in sex and death- two experiences that come once in a lifetime.

The Jewish culture - people that are Jewish have a certain cultural habit that they've formed and one of those habits is an appreciation of theater and music - these are cultural things one does associate with values that are promulgated by Jewish families. I think that's a good thing.

Of all human weakness obsession is the most dangerous. And the silliest.

Have you ever taken a serious political stand on anything? Yeah. Sure. For twenty-four hours once I refused to eat grapes.