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

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

Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.

That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.

My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.

I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.

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 things.

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 models.

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.

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.

If a picture paints a thousand words, then a let a picture inspire a thousand words.

Everyone has the Capacity to Succeed…Ceteris Paribus!

Behind every novel is a greater story of how it came to be published.

I always gave it the best shot I had, whether it went my way or not that night.

Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian.

I believe that luck is opportunity meeting preparation.

My love is unique. No one can rival her, for she is the most beautiful girl alive. Just by passing, she has stolen my heart.

I'm a very rooted person. I grew up in Norwich, Connecticut, I still live in Connecticut.

Finding a voice that your readers will enjoy is largely a matter of taste. Saying that isn't much help-taste is a quality so intangible that it can't even be defined. But we know it when we meet it.