Director

Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.

One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister.

And Walker was made with a Mexican crew, although it was shot in Nicaragua.

You'd never have a motorcycle policeman out on the Indian reservation.

I don't think about Hollywood at all.

I'd love to make another film in Mexico.

The future is always a dystopia in movies.

In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius.

So I had the worst experience at the very beginning, and things have been getting better since.

You can't change the system through violence.

I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say.

We hope to do the Spanish Tragedy based on the play by Thomas Kyd.

Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings.

Unfortunately my career began in Hollywood, doing a negative pickup for Universal pictures.

The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king.

No, I did a film called 'Death and the Compass' as well.

I did not find my studies particularly enthralling.

Visual representation of it is essential if we're to come to terms with what it is we've done.

Because there is actually something very interesting in Goodfellas, how the style of the film changes as time goes by and based on the mental state of the protagonist.

The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem.