I'm in a house where if the washing machine shuts off, it sings a song. If iPad gets a message, it sings a song. I'm living in a real postmodern time - every single thing sings to you to tell you it's started, it's stopped, you've got a message, you didn't get a message.

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.

Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.

My existence is about making movies, so I've just got to rock and roll with the punches. You want to make movies on telephones, I'm there.

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.

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 don't want to live anywhere where I'm breathing two million cars' fumes and paying a zillion dollars for the right to be totally hassled.