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.

I don't have a problem with Werner Herzog.

A script is not a piece of literature, it's a process.

I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.

Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.

When I talk about drugs and alcohol, I'm talking about sex addiction, gambling addiction, eating addiction, throwing-up addiction. I'm not talking about mental illness.

I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.