Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way.

As you grow older, you change.

It’s often overlooked. It’s labor. That’s at the heart of #‎ collaboration .

All I can do is try to do the best work I can. I need to work, I like to work... although I complain about it, but I do like it - and I just need to make the best film I can.

It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods.

If I'm not complaining, I'm not having a good time, hah hah!

I know that I come from mid-20th century America, urban, specifically downtown New York, specifically an Italian-American area, Roman Catholic - that's who I am. And a part of what I know is there's a decency to people who tried to make a living in the kind of world that was around us and also the Skid Row area of the Bowery; it impressed me.