Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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.
In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.
I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.
Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?
The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself. How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this 'I, me, mine' type of thing.