My father always said, 'The saddest thing in life is wasted talent.'

I like playing roulette, I like dice. I grew up with gamblers.

The saddest thing in life is wasted talent, and the choices you make will shape your life forever.

Italian-Americans are not the Mafia.

My mother and father told me I was god. I was a good Italian boy who hung out with the same four guys. I was a little god.

When you feel good about the work you're doing, that's what's important, not the budget or anything like that. If you're happy about the actors you're working with, that's what's important.

I've always been successful. Now I'm famous and successful.

Mental violence is as bad as physical violence. You don't see that very often in movies, so it was a good subject to tackle.

Yeah, I like to gamble.

I thought that if no one was going to give me a great part - and it was very difficult to break into film, obviously - then I'd write one myself.

Please, if you're making a movie, start out with a good script, at least! Please!

Some look at life, for their entire life, before they actually see.

Live and let live is not enough live and help live is not too much.

Desription should be very brief and have an incidental nature.

Not let the child run the circus, just have that child be the source of the creative voice.

When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me.

In my mind, everything is too sanitised on television - what is wrong with things going wrong?

Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain.

At this point, a spaceship could land on Main Street and Elvis could saunter out singing "Love Me Tender," and I wouldn't be surprised

I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do without.

Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide-open and that...may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.