My talent is that I just try and try and try and try again and little by little it comes to something.

I still think Ned Beatty should've played Don Corleone.

I've been failing for, like, ten or eleven years. When it turns, it'll turn. Right now I'm just trying to squeeze through a very tight financial period, get the movie out, and put my things in order.

Drinking wine is just a part of life, like eating food.

I was a pretty shy, lonely kid. I blossomed about age 17, when I went to college.

'Godfather' was very classical, the way it was shot, the style, the whole driving force of it was more classical, almost Shakespearean.

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