I don't have a problem with Werner Herzog.

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

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.

Even if you're a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you're still in the world - although I guess being a poet is a different than having to deal with 40 or 50 people to raise a couple million bucks and all that bullshit.

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.

A script is not a piece of literature, it's a process.

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.