In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.
Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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.
I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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.
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.