I Have A Very Bad Relationship With

In My Movies, There Has Been Little To Do In The Way Of Animal Rights. I Have Never Worked In A Movie With Animals. No Horse-riding, No Trained Dogs, Lions, Bears. A Few Actors, But What Could I Do? We Had To Have Them.

All Cultures Are Different. Some Commit Genocide. Some Are Uniquely Peaceful. Some Have Enormous Hunting Festivals Or Annual Stretches When Nobody Speaks. Some Don't Use Electricity. In American Culture, We Obsess About Celebrities. We Create Them, Build Myths Around Them, And Then Hunt Them And Destroy Them. I Don't Know Where Its Taking Us Or What It Means But I Know We Do It.

I Have A Very Bad Relationship With Mice.

When You're The Guy Behind The Camera, You're Aware Of The Reasons For The Compromises Or The Changes That Get Made. As An Actor, You Go And Do Your Thing, And Someone Else Down The Line Then Does All The Math And Goes, "we Can't Include That Thing Where He's Pretending To Be Dumb And Needling Those People, Because It Takes A Minute And A Half, And It Ruins The Next Scene. It Doesn't Make Sense." If You're Directing, You're The One Doing That.

In New York, As Long As You're Not Peeing In Someone's Doorway, Everyone Thinks You're A Gentleman.