Wine is so much more than a beverage. It's a romance, a story, a drama-all of those things that are basically putting on a show.

Whom God wishes to destroy, He first makes successful in show business.

I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

That's part of the requirement for me to be an artist is that you're trying to share your personal existence with others and trying to illuminate modern life, trying to understand life.

I made this movie for $40,000, which was this little black-and-white horror film called Dementia 13, which we made in about nine days.

I have always credited the writer of the original material above the title: Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Bram Stoker's Dracula, or John Grisham's The Rainmaker. I felt that I didn't have the right to Francis Coppola's anything unless I had written the story and the screenplay.