Unfortunately my career began in Hollywood, doing a negative pickup for Universal pictures.

In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius.

Justin Salinger showed up one day with a pink cowboy hat on and everyone else got really annoyed because somehow he'd managed to get the pink cowboy hat.

Artists make their work to be seen by others. Well, really we do it to please ourselves, but whatever your art is, you want it to be seen by an audience. In theory, especially in the independent world, ironically, you do stand a chance of making a bit of money if the film gets distribution.

Sorry, but there is no pleasure in finding new ways of saying the same stuff about projects which tanked.

I did not find my studies particularly enthralling.

The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king.