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.

I tried for about two semesters in a preparatory seminary. But I was about 15 and didn't fully understand what a vocation means.

I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty. Some of the cops were even friends of ours. But a cop can go both ways.

The Five Points was the toughest street corner in the world. That's how it was known. In fact, Charles Dickens visited it in the 1850s and he said it was worse than anything he'd seen in the East End of London.

Basically, you make another movie, and another, and hopefully you feel good about every picture you make. And you say, 'My name is on that. I did that. It's OK.' But don't get me wrong, I still get excited by it all. That, I hope, will never disappear.

Music and film are inseparable. They always have been and always will be.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.