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

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.

There is only one religion and that is to love unconditionally. Those who kill in the name of religion are the bigot and biggest nonbeliever.

To be happy, pursue your purpose with love and honesty.

Why waste your strength envying and hating instead of loving?

We are all alone in this world

when you're younga pair offemalehigh-heeled shoesjust sittingalonein the closetcan fire yourbones

It is not a bad sport, but there's no place to go.

Faith is the willingness to risk anything on God.

Our biggest failure is our failure to see patterns.

So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual.

Levity of behavior, always a weakness, is far more unbecoming in a woman than a man.