My philosophy is always, "Let's get the spirit of the character." If people believe in it and the spirit of it, then it will work.

I'm not interested in doing a simple, straightforward action movie, unless they want to pay me lots of money.

If you try to do a look-alike and an impersonation, then that's just not conducive to good drama.

As a director you want to show the truth of people and sometimes that's unflattering, or it's not something that people want to see.

The thing about Hitchcock is that, however much one dissects him, he still manages to hang onto his mystery. You can never quite get to the bottom of him.

I'm looking for richness, complexity, and characters that have different layers and that you don't really get bored of.

There's so much energy that's needed, for every stage of the process, so I don't want to do something that I'm bored by with characters that I don't like or actors that aren't going to surprise you.

Wake! For the Sun, who scatter'd into flightThe Stars before him from the Field of Night, Drives Night along with them from Heav'n, and strikesThe Sultan's Turret with a Shaft of Light

Adam's hot Pheebs! Admit it girl. That body is like some kind of happy experiment. It's like he was manufactured in a nympho scientist's secret laboratory

FIREFLAKES: The stars

It is not what we choose that is important; it is the reason we choose it.

If it doesn't matter in five years, it doesn't matter.

Anybody that I can work with that will help improve the lives of New Yorkers, I will work with that person.

Horace's best ode would not please a young woman as much as the mediocre verses of the young man she is in love with.

Now people ask whether photography is art, but I think the question is of absolutely no interest.

There is no greater learning process than to teach.

Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.