Cat lovers turn into cat collectors.
When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse around me forced me to grasp something many people miss: the fragility of peace.
Part of filmmaking is always a guessing game, and part of it is always a game of trust.
Jack Nicholson is fairly gifted. We were at the Sistine Chapel, and everybody went from looking straight up to looking across the room at him.
Let’s keep the chemists over here and the food over here, that’s my feeling. What do I know? But that is a big aspect of fast food is their ability to artificially taint the colors and the smells and stuff to stimulate appetite.
I don’t consider a lot of actors that I really admire movie stars.
Good scripts and interesting stories are hard enough to find.
If a woman has one cat, it will invariably turn into 20.
Everybody’s family has problems.
Audiences don’t ever disappoint me, in the sense that movies I feel really good about, they usually feel really good about too.
A man always looks good in a dark suit.
My adolescence was all tits and champagne. I’m downplaying the magic of it all.
I can’t not find humor in elements of most parts of life, but at the same time nothing ever seems perpetually funny to me.
Well, I don’t know what image people have of me.