I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.

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.

Same mind with same old ideas enters the same old year

When Eve upon the first of men The apple pressed with specious cant Oh! what a thousand pities then That Adam was not adamant.

The universal line of distinction between the strong and the weak is that one persists; the other hesitates, falters, trifles, and at last collapses or "caves in.

I do want to get married again, and I want to have kids. And this time, I really want to do it right.

I could never be James Bond.

Keep pressure on Iran, because pressure works.

Vice, virtue - it's best not to be too moral. You'll cheat yourself out of too much life.

A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing.

Not writing is as important as writing - go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in it, are.

No matter what we as individual women want, no matter what our goals, we have to support one another.