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.

With 'New Rose Hotel,' I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that's all I was going to get.

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.

A lifetime isn't long enough to learn how to make films.

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

I direct, and I make movies I can't finance. I can't raise money. I can't sell anything. I make things.

I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.