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

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.

That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.

But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.

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.

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

Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.