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.

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

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

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

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.

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