Please, if you're making a movie, start out with a good script, at least! Please!

I'm very proud of being Italian-American, but people don't realize that the mafia is just this aberration. The real community is built on the working man, the guy who's the cop, the fireman, the truck driver, the bus driver.

Please, if you're making a movie, start out with a good script, at least! Please!

The saddest thing in life is wasted talent, and the choices you make will shape your life forever.

I love people who just started making movies - first-timers, second-timers. They take chances.

My mom was Sicilian, my dad was Sicilian. Mom was a great cook, but all the women were.

I thought that if no one was going to give me a great part - and it was very difficult to break into film, obviously - then I'd write one myself.