I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

I was interested in the idea of succession - showing a father and a son both in their own time and drawing a contrast

Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film.

Lots of people have criticized my movies, but nobody has ever identified the real problem: I'm a sloppy filmmaker.

I had an older brother who was very interested in literature, so I had an early exposure to literature, and and theater. My father sometimes would work in musical comedies.

We were raised in an Italian-American household, although we didn't speak Italian in the house. We were very proud of being Italian, and had Italian music, ate Italian food.

A director is the ringmaster of a circus that's inventing itself.