Director

My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.

My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.

There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.

I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.

The last day of your life is still going to be a day.

I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.

I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.

Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.

As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.

A script is not a piece of literature it's a process.

I don't care if I get $50m to do a film.

Certain actors wanna get paid, they think working in a low-budget movie is being ripped off. But for others it's like, 'Yes, let's do it.'

Where I come from you're not raised to think on your own. It's not that you're pushed to read the Bible. The Bible is read to you.

But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.

A script is not a piece of literature it's a process.

It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.

Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.

Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?

I'm about my characters.

As an old-time New Yorker, it's not that I miss the '70s and '80s or whatever. I miss the fact that there was a certain kind of energy that exists when people can live for nothing.