Don't get too comfortable. We are here for a certain period of time, and how much of your life are you gonna choose to spend with distractions? How do you make your choices? What is important?

I was so besotted with '8½' that, when it was on TV, I used to take pictures with my 35-mm. camera of the frames of the film. That was the first time I'd ever really seen Italians on screen.

I had a prior deal in place to do a miniseries for HBO, so I'm not done with TV. But I basically want to stay in movies.

Hope comes in many forms.

Psychology doesn't address the soul; that's something else.

When I was doing 'The Sopranos,' I liked putting music together with the film; that was my favorite part of it.

But cheer up - we could be selling tobacco. It's not like software kills people if used as intended