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.

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.

There's a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.

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.

Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.

I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.

My job is going to be to direct the film - I'm going to do it. And that's where my job ends.