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Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.

I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.

You can't live in nostalgia-land.

I can't tell you how hard it is to make a dark-humored movie in Hollywood.

Nostalgia is a particular affliction of immigrant fiction, and it's led to a kind of sclerosis of the form. I hate nostalgia, and I feel it's good to be aware of the politics of these genres.

I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.

Today, nostalgia is almost as unacceptable as racism.

I don't want to be a slave to nostalgia.

Maybe there's a chance to get back to grown-up films. Anything that uses humor and dramatic values to deal with human emotions and gets down to what people are to people.

The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.