When everything is added up, the frequent blows weighted against the sporadic triumphs, this is I have to say not just a vocation, it's a great gift. But you also know this, for your work, for your passion, every day is a rededication. Painters, dancers, actors, writers, filmmakers. It's the same for all of you, all of us. Every step is a first step. Every brush stroke is a test. Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. So, let the learning continue.

You don't make pictures for Oscars.

You've got to protect whatever creative talent you have left.

My working-class Italian-American parents didn't go to school, there were no books in the house.

Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.

I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.

If you don’t like the films of Samuel Fuller , then you just don’t like cinema.