"I like New York because you're kind of forced to smell everybody else's funk. So it keeps you biologically attached to the world around you."
"Well, I look at it like this: When you go to a restaurant, the less you know about what happens in the kitchen, the more you enjoy your meal. If the soup tastes good, everything's cool, and you don't necessarily want to know what's in it. The same thing holds true with movies."
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