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.

As a child I had terrible asthma.

I've been to North Africa many times.

I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.

I think there's only one or two films where I've had all the financial support I needed. All the rest, I wish I'd had the money to shoot another ten days.

It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.

I happen to like vampires more than zombies.