I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.

I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.

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.

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

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

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.