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.

I don't like being in houses alone.

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

I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.

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

Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.

The only way I was able to defend myself was to be able to take punishment. Then I got a lot of respect. They said, "Oh, he's okay, he can take it. Don't hit him." The guys were pretty big, and I had asthma.