Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
I don't have a problem with Werner Herzog.
Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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.