Zombies, what are you going to do with them? Just keep chopping them up, shooting at them, shooting at them.

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'm going to be 60, and I'm almost used to myself.

I've been thrown out of schools and fired from jobs. I don't want to work. I can honestly say I haven't done an honest day's work in my life.

Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you're working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience.

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

I certainly wasn't able to get it when I was a kid growing up on the Lower East Side; it was very hard at that time for me to balance what I really believed was the right way to live with the violence I saw all around me - I saw too much of it among the people I knew.