In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.

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.

For any created being, autonomy is lunacy. Freedom involves trust and obedience inside a relationship of love.

I believe in justice, as long as I'm holding a knife at the throat of the judge.

Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.

Human nature has a tendency to admire complexity but reward simplicity.

Have I ever been in love? Really in love? And why is it that with each new guy I think I'm more in love with him than the last?

I wouldn't say that holidays are manufactured by corporations, but they're certainly exploited and mined by them.

I am comfortable knowing that I put my heart and soul into the presidency.

Civil religion is the attempt to empower religion, not for the good of religion, but for the creation of the citizen.

I dropped out of Reed College [Portland, Oregon] after the first six months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?

When greater perils men inviron, Then women show a front of iron; And, gentle in their manner, they Do bold things in a quiet way.