If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?

I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty. Some of the cops were even friends of ours. But a cop can go both ways.

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.

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

I've seen many, many movies over the years, and there are only a few that suddenly inspire you so much that you want to continue to make films.

When I'm making a film, I'm the audience.

The only way I was able to defend myself was to be able to take punishment. Then I got a lot of respect. They said, "Oh, he's okay, he can take it. Don't hit him." The guys were pretty big, and I had asthma.