“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”

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.

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 have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.

I was brought up as a physicist.

It’s much more casual than it was, but my clothes and my ring attire – I thought up half of what I brought to the show.

We built walls around them with slits through which to fire arrows at scary, cross-eyed rural people, and brought our food and family inside because they were the safest places to be.

It is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.

What brought me to Disney was the new regime, which is now the old regime, came over with Michael Eisner, Frank Wells, Jeffrey Katzenberg.

I was a very early reader, so I was really brought up being surrounded with piles of British books and British newspapers, British magazines. I developed a really great love of England.