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

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

Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.

That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.

My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.

I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.

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.

As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.

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.

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.

I direct, and I make movies I can't finance. I can't raise money. I can't sell anything. I make things.

The respect you give to others dramatically reflects the respect you give to yourself.

You will not be here--I shall not be here--much lo

Remember: What dad really wants is a nap. Really.

For those of us who consider ourselves political moderates, life is a dispiriting slog, a sorry mix of rectitude and ineptitude.

Praising all alike, is praising none.

The Oscar prestige was fine, but I worked more before I was nominated.

France is invaded; I am leaving to take command of my troops, and, with God's help and their valor, I hope soon to drive the enemy beyond the frontier.

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In tough times, everyone has to take their share of the pain.

I think when Aristotle said that man is a political animal, he was really saying that man is a pack animal.