“My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.”

“So I've tried to be this very eccentric character, and that works very well if you want to be a painter which I did once upon a time, if you want to be a musician which I did once upon a time. But if you want to make movies and you want to make challenging movies, you've got to be the sanest person ”