I grew up within Italian-American neighborhoods, everybody was coming into the house all the time, kids running around, that sort of stuff, so when I finally got into my own area, so to speak, to make films, I still carried on.

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

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

We cannot burn Mick Jagger. We want the effect, but we can't burn him.

I always say that I've been in a bad mood for maybe 35 years now. I try to lighten it up, but that's what comes out when you get me on camera.

I can't really envision a time when I'm not shooting something.

I don't agree with everything he did in his life, but we're dealing with this Howard Hughes, at this point. And also ultimately the flaw in Howard Hughes, the curse so to speak.