As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
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That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
A script is not a piece of literature it's a process.
I'm about my characters.
Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?
Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
The secret is not to make a film that causes something like Virginia Tech to happen. The secret is to make a film that stops it happening.
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.
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.
I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things.
Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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.'
I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.
I don't care if I get $50m to do a film.
I don't have a problem with Werner Herzog.
I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.
I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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