As an old-time New Yorker, it's not that I miss the '70s and '80s or whatever. I miss the fact that there was a certain kind of energy that exists when people can live for nothing.
From Abel Ferrara
That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from 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.
As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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.
My existence is about making movies, so I've just got to rock and roll with the punches. 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.
Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?
I don't have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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