The Oscar For The Films,

Jazz Has Endured Because It Doesn't Have A Beginning Or An Ending. It's A Moment.

Happy Endings Are Absolutely Ludicrous, They're Not True At All. We See The Guy Carry The Girl Across The Threshold And Everybody Lives Happily Ever After -- That's Bullshit. Three Weeks Later He's Beating Her Up And She's Suing For Divorce And He's Got Cancer.

I Like Audiences To Crane Their Necks.

If George W. Bush Is Elected President, I'm Leaving For France.

All Of My Films Deal With The Same Thing: Striving, Socially And Culturally, To Stay Alive.