You’re so good looking I can barely keep my eyes on the meter.
The content dictates the style all the time. That’s the way it is. If the content of the film is highly jagged, neurotic, fast-paced, it just called for that kind of shooting, editing and performance.
I feel about New York as a child whose father is a bank robber. Not perfect, but I still love him.
I’m going to my psychoanalyst one more year, then I’m going to Lourdes.
I asked the girl if she could bring a sister for me. She did. Sister Maria Teresa. It was a very slow evening. We discussed the New Testament. We agreed that He was very well adjusted for an only child.
Let’s say there was a burning building and you could rush in and you could save only one thing: either the last known copy of Shakespeare’s plays or some anonymous human being. What would you do?
Cynicism is reality with an alternate spelling.
I was a smart kid and I was not understood by my parents.
It’s all through the actors; I cannot write in that idiom.
You use sex to express every emotion except love.
Fantasy is only a state of mind that you can employ when existing in a real context.
I have a great admiration for English actors and actresses and have used them at every opportunity over the years, but now I won’t have to import them to New York.
My father owned a small piece of land. He carried it with him wherever he went.
The great roe is a mythological beast with the head of a lion and the body of a lion, though not the same lion.
The roe is reputed to sleep for a thousand years and then suddenly rise in flames, particularly if it was smoking when it dozed off.
I can’t imagine any director directing a screenplay of mine, because the great directors all have very personal styles, and the ones that don’t are not very interesting directors.
I am told the settlement of $5 million I am being paid is the largest amount ever paid under the New York right to privacy law.
I can’t even make a leap of faith to believe in my own existence.
I’m very old-fashioned. I believe that people should stay married for life, like pigeons and Catholics.
He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.