I think true economic class unhappiness comes from when across the street someone has a new Cadillac and you can't get that.

I think of New Yorkers as not taking the time to talk to someone they don't know.

I think I'm a very American director, but I probably should have been making movies somewhere around 1976. I never left the mainstream of American movies; the American mainstream left me.

I think we're glazing eyes all across America.

At Ellis Island, I mean, you didn't go there if you arrived in first class. It was only the poorest, the people in the worst shape.

The state of being in love is so inherently preposterous. It usually lends itself to romantic comedy. I think we've all been there.