You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

Being a father at a later age is different from when I had my other two daughters when I was in my 20s and 30s. If you're in your 60s and you're with the kid every day, you're dealing with the mind of a child, so it opens up that childishness in you again.

My films really have to be a part of a whole body of work that says something to me.

My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.

Being independent... is being innovative out of inspiration as well as necessity.

You've got to love something enough to kill it.

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.