Everybody's in New York and, hopefully, my younger kids will go to college in New York and find something they want to do so they'll stay in the city

It's a very stressful thing, directing a movie. You have the budget, you have the schedule, you are in certain confines, and you have everybody giving you advice about what to do.

The bottom line is if the movie does well, everybody is happy and they forget about what they went through. And if it doesn't, it's 'I told you.' There's one director who I won't mention, who said, 'it's all blood under the bridge.'

When I think of a good restaurant, it's where the food has been consistent; there's always a consistency.

I don’t get into these long-winded heavy discussions about character - do we do this or that or what. At the end of the day, what you gotta do is just go out there and do it.

If De Niro wants to spend the twilight of his career as the McDonald's of master thespians, we can't stop him.

You'll have time to rest when you're dead.