“I’m about my characters.”

Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.

And get off your spot and take that knowledge you have not to fix yourself into a place but to keep going.

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.

Рow can we be, even if it is the last day on earth? It’s like Christmas Eve. “Okay, it’s going to be Christmas.

There’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.

Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?

Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.

And the people doing them don’t even know each other, or know each other under pressure, or know each other when things are really

When I talk about drugs and alcohol, I’m talking about sex addiction, gambling addiction, eating addiction, throwing-up addiction. I’m not talking about mental illness.

My job is going to be to direct the film – I’m going to do it. And that’s where my job ends.

The world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark

Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.

No one can stop me from talking about my movie.

It’s funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it’s fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.

Even if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world

My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.

You need people with brain and heart and soul that give it all. You need young people on skateboards and you need people running around making noise.

All of my friends are independent in thought, that’s important.

I think we all just love to be together and there are just not enough reasons to be together.

Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!

All of my close friends have been in my life for years. My best friends are all people I met in grade school, going back as far as 3rd grade.

It’s not like I crave attention all the time.

God doesn’t just love all of us. He loves each of us.

Messi is the best player of all time. Better than Pele, better than Maradona and better than anyone else.