I think probably everybody works most on the beginning and the ending.

You're not turning the picture over to a system or a process, you are the process, and the most important thing is to have things exactly as you want them.

I never work until I have a deadline. You have to fit so much in a given day that you just don't get serious until you know when the deadline is.

In all honesty a gangster picture was the easiest kind of film for me to get made.

I don't think you need $35 million bucks to make a movie. I think what people should do is make a lot more movies for a lot less money. You can really do it.

I'm more from a double world where I wasn't part of anything or invested in anything, because I was Irish, and very Irish, but also the other part of my family, not that it had airs, or money, was descended from the first minister on Cape Ann in the 1620s.

I think that gambling is a synthetic experience and that if you have any balls you gamble with your life. I have. So can everybody else.