I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success..

A script is not a piece of literature, it's a process..

I don't have a problem with Werner Herzog..

My job is going to be to direct the film - I'm going to do it. And that's where my job ends..

I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point..

Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and ….

It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh..

My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy. He came to New York when he was 20. He lived in ….

As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far..

The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself. How you look ….

I direct, and I make movies I can't finance. I can't raise money. I can't sell anything. I make things..

I grew up in the Bronx. I'm into rap music..

I don't need to push myself. I don't need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat. I'm trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to….

Рow can we be, even if it is the last day on earth? It's like Christmas Eve. "Okay, it's going to be Christmas. So what. What are you going to do? Ju….

The world is constantly changing. You're constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark, and get off your spot and take that kno….

Certain actors wanna get paid, they think working in a low-budget movie is being ripped off. But for others it's like, 'Yes, let's do it.'.

I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age..

I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about thi….

I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept..

With 'New Rose Hotel,' I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that's all I was going to get..

I don't want to live anywhere where I'm breathing two million cars' fumes and paying a zillion dollars for the right to be totally hassled..