If I have to be remembered for something, I want it remembered that I really liked children and was a good camp counselor.

I was raised as a Catholic, but I didn't like the Catholic Church at all. I thought the nuns were mean.

I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.

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.

I gladly, I voluntarily gave up the kind of commercial film career I had going as soon as I had enough money to finance my own films.

Death is what makes life an event.

Movies are the art form most like man's imagination.