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

The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself.

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.’

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 don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.

He came to New York when he was 20. He lived in the States from age 20 to 96, but he brought his culture with him

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.

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 great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.

And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.

Well, when you write about people of a certain age we are in a postsexual situation. If I write about younger people then I write sexually, because their drive is sexual. It depends upon the circumstances.

Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

Do you know the times when one seems to stick fast in circumstances like the fly in the jam-pot? It can’t be helped, and I suppose the best thing to do is to lay in a good store of jam!

When you cannot rejoice in feelings, circumstances or conditions, rejoice in the Lord.

The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]