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.

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

I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things.

I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.

My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy. He came to New York when he was 20. He lived in the States from age 20 to 96, but he brought his culture with him, he brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.

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.

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