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 know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.

As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.

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.

Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?

It's always a problem when you're working with people you don't really know. Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting. You know, these month - or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on, and the people doing them don't even know each other, or know each other under pressure, or know each other when things are really... Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You're under constant crisis, making a movie.