“I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.”

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

The limits of my imagination is the only thing that’s gonna stop me.

He brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.

So what. What are you going to do? Jump off the Empire State Building?” It’s all still the same. The last day of your life is still going to be a day.

Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie

A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.

I’m about my characters.

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

You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.

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.

I’m in a house where if the washing machine shuts off, it sings a song. If iPad gets a message, it sings a song.

I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.

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

Then there’s that thing, maybe it’s not true. Who knows? Are you going to believe it? Are you going to buy it?

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

Although I guess being a poet is a different than having to deal with 40 or 50 people to raise a couple million bucks and all that bullshit.

He who gives early gives twice.

Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.

Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.

It was early detection that saved my voice – and I imagine, my life.

It was still early, and the sun’s lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet.

Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds.

If I had been married earlier in life, I wouldn’t have seen the double helix. I would have been taking care of the kids on Saturday. On the other hand, I was lonely a lot of the time.

Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think we know everything- or to put it more usefully, we are often unaware of the scope and structure of our ignorance.