I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I'm working with.

I stopped courting Hollywood a long time ago

I don't champion the idea of being in a Hollywood movie. I never had fun in one of them

I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker

You love what you do, you are cursed with it, and then you get known for being cursed with it

I've worked for 27 years nonstop in theater and films. That's a lot of work.

The Italian gangster thing has become a form of the modern-day Western