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.

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.

I don't have a problem with Werner Herzog.

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.

A lifetime isn't long enough to learn how to make films.

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