I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.

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.

As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it.

Give contemporary POET more SPACE & a long-last MAGIC will surround you all again.

For my family to go on living the way they are living now I can't just die. I've got to die accidentally.

My work should be seen as poetry.

Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.

One can perfectly well philosophize while cooking supper.

The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point where, according to analytic dogma, it originated namely, the lavatory.

When you come from a background like mine, where you're entering worlds that are so different than your own, you have to be afraid.

There was a clown that tried to eat me as a boy, in my nightmares. Years later I found a clown for booking online who resembled him named Patches. Needless to say, Patches is dead now.

It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.