"I'm a big fan of music in movies. I think it's essential."

"The good thing about being a writer is you can make up anything you want."

"I didn't start a family until late in life. I've been -- I've always kind of equated -- if you're doing movies on, you know, on the level that I've been doing, actually at the level I've been allowed …"

"When I start writing I write these crazy novels. And I don't know what to do about it. Well, write a novel. That's what you can do, write a novel. And don't make a movie out of it."

"I wish I had sat him down and gone, 'Harvey you can't do this, you're gonna f*** up everything.' I don't think anybody talked to him about it."