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

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

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

I tried for about two semesters in a preparatory seminary. But I was about 15 and didn't fully understand what a vocation means.

There are times when you have to face your enemies, sit down and deal with it.

Basically, you make another movie, and another, and hopefully you feel good about every picture you make. And you say, 'My name is on that. I did that. It's OK.' But don't get me wrong, I still get excited by it all. That, I hope, will never disappear.

Well, I think in my own work the subject matter usually deals with characters I know, aspects of myself, friends of mine - that sort of thing.