I can't really envision a time when I'm not shooting something.

Alcohol decimated the working class and so many people.

I have a desire to tell stories. And I'm never quite satisfied.

It's interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant.

People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.

It’s also true that I might have never made Taxi Driver [1976] were it not for the success of Alice [Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, 1974]. The question of commercialism is a source of worry. Must one make a choice, must it be a matter of either setting your sights on winning an Academy Award and becoming a millionaire, or making only the movies you want to make and starving to death?

I'm not a Hollywood director. I'm an in spite of Hollywood director.