Ben Stiller

I love New York. I was sad, depressed and incredibly moved by our fellow countrymen and what they've done. I wanted to give people a chance to see something funny, have a distraction.

Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.

Paul is Starsky, and I met him before shooting. He was very kind and encouraged us to go with what we wanted to do. It was very sweet to see them back with the car after 25 years.

For an Italian peasant a telegram from anywhere is a wondrous thing; and a cable from the terrestrial paradise of America is not lightly to be disregarded.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.