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.

I don't know how else to tell the story except to utilise that vocabulary: the rain, the darkness, the mansions, the framing, etc, the lighting and that sort of thing.

I prefer people who don't get caught, and if they do get caught, I prefer people who don't give in.

The only thing I really wanted was the freedom to be able to get what I want on film. I’ve dealt with the MPAA since 1973, so I know how to renegotiate and rework.

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

Watching a Kubrick film is like gazing up at a mountaintop. You look up and wonder, how could anyone have climbed that high?

I grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually.