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 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.

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.

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

One cannot have a future if he doesn’t serve the one and only God

Now and then I am asked as to ‘what books a statesman should read, ’ and my answer is, poetry and novels – including short stories under the head of novels.

From now on, depressions will be scientifically created.

Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.

One day I am satisfied, the next day I find it all bad; still I hope that some day I will find some of them good.

The activity of being a husband, a father - those are roles, too, but underneath them is the spiritual center that connects us all, and that's what's most important.

Zombies, what are you going to do with them? Just keep chopping them up, shooting at them, shooting at them.

A left-wing idiot is as dangerous as a right-wing idiot.

In shame there is no comfort but to be beyond all bounds of shame.

Too often new ideas are studied and analyzed until they are suffocated.