Basically I am a low-culture person. I prefer watching baseball with a beer and some meatballs.

Show business is dog eat dog. It's worse than dog eat dog. It's dog doesn't return dog's phone calls.

Eternity is really long, especially near the end.

I consider myself a completely lucky filmmaker. I've had nothing but good luck. Everything I've needed has come my way.

I have a number of symptoms that are neurotic and are constricting in the sense that if I had a brilliant idea for a film that had to be shot in Tulsa, OK I would tear it up and throw it away. Anything outside of New York, 'cause I can't exist in a hotel outside of my own home, I have to be in my own home and my own environment. This is a neurotic symptom that is constricting to my work even.

I do believe that reality is dreadful and that you are forced to choose it in the end or go crazy, but that it kills you.

The movie is usually, for me, something organic that grows all the time. I sit home and write it, and I'm in an isolated, four-walled environment, and I don't know what's going on. I just write it, and it's appearing in my head in some idealized way where every single moment works, and every little thing is perfect, because it's in my head.