The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself. How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this 'I, me, mine' type of thing.

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

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.

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.

I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.

I don't have a problem with Werner Herzog.

Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.