Making movies is time-consuming and it's boring. You spend most of your time waiting between takes. It's like a big machine that moves slowly.

The only reason I did Showtime was Robert De Niro. I definitely consider him to be in the top 5 all time actors.

This is how you answer a door in my neighborhood. WHO IS IT?

Anything you have to acquire a taste for was not meant to be eaten.

From the very beginning, I always tried to make dialogue flow comfortably; I always did that to make it seem more authentic.

All inspiration comes from a higher power. The body is a shell. The creative spot is from God - You hear voices, everybody does. When you get older, you refer to it as intuition.

I don't think there's ever been someone with as much presence as Elvis Presley, I mean if he walked into a room I think everyone would be looking at only him. Even when he was dying and through all that when you looked at him it seemed all put together. It fascinates me.