I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.

It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody.

I respect the audience's intelligence a lot, and that's why I don't try to go for the lowest common denominator.

I think that anyone who lives in New York, who's lived here, who's spent any time here, knows that it's basically a love-hate relationship, you might say. Even though I still think it's the greatest city in the world and I wouldn't live anywhere else, there're still things about it one doesn't like. The love far outweighs the negative.

I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful.