The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.

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.

Unity! Duty! And destiny!

After all, this is America, and you can swap out the parts of yourself that don't work. You can rebuild yourself piece by piece.

I know the consequences, Manon, ” Ilyse conceded. “I know the fate you endured might one day be my own. But I refuse to be a prisoner for the rest of my life.

God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.

One of our nation's greatest leaders of all time was Hubert Horatio Hornblower.

We are not downhearted, but we cannot understand what is happening to our neighbours.

My own child, one of them, died of AIDS. A brilliant boy.

Matt Hardy may be dysfunctional, but you can't spell dysfunctional without fun. My goal in the professional wrestling industry is to put fun into the dysfunctionality of it.

I don't mind losing, but I don't like losing to cheats.

Am I keeping my promises?