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'm about my characters.

I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.

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.

The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.

No one can stop me from talking about my movie.

I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.