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 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.

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

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.

He calls me desperate (on my tombstone)I hope poetic license will allow: HUNGRY

He wants to be grown-up. How different dreams can be! Nature will soon grant your wish.

Most of today's film actress are typical of a mass-production age: living dolls who look as if they came off an assembly line . . .

Life is short. You have to be able to laugh at our pain or we never move on.

This is, I believe, what happens when people take their own lives. They're not killing themselves, they're killing the world. Either to spare it pain or to cause it some, depending.

The weather is here Wish you were beautiful.

Generally, I've never known quite how to fit in in civilian life, but on set, making a film, I know exactly where to go, how to behave and how I fit.

Femininity for me means happiness and freedom...freedom of being who you are in whatever shape or size you come in.

There's nothing that reflects me. I'm unreflectable!

I am reading Henry James...and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber.