Certainly There Have Been Better

I'd Bought A Lot Of Really Challenging, Cutting-edge Joel-peter Witkin Photographs Very Early On. There Were Severed Heads And Amputated Feet And Hands In Them - Gruesome Stuff. I Had Them All Around The House, And If Someone Couldn't Relate To It In Some Artistic Way And Instead Just Said "yuck," Then There Probably Wouldn't Have Been Anywhere For Us To Go.

Shooting In New York Can Be A Problem... I Had To Walk Through A Crowd, Come In The Front Door, And Play The Scene.

Always Walk Towards Open Doors. And If They Slam Shut In Your Face, Kick That Sucker In And Keep Going.

The Idea That You're Completing Someone Else In A Marriage To Me Is Death. That To Me Is A False Start And Most Of Us Are Usually Taught That ... You've Got To Stand On Your Own. Then You Can Build Something Extraordinary.

A Lot Of Making A Movie Is The Comfort Level Of The People. It's Just Feeling Open. We Need To Get Along. We Have To Know Something About Each Other.