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

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

No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn't stop for your grief.

He thinks he's comforting a friend after a bad breakup. Little does he know-he's the one who's breaking my heart.

I'd rather lose my own money than someone else's.

The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.

The value the world sets upon motives is often grossly unjust and inaccurate.

Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.

Good men prefer to be accountable.

What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.

We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans.

Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside.