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.

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

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.

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

Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.

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.

The world is constantly changing. You're constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark, and get off your spot and take that knowledge you have not to fix yourself into a place but to keep going.