With 'New Rose Hotel,' I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that's all I was going to get.

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.

A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.

To be alive is to be afraid, and much to our advantage in many cases, since alarm often preserves us from danger.

It is typically Norwegian to be good

The truth is that every writer, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, is trying to write something truly original and that's what I think I'm doing.

School takes 13 years, because that is how long it takes to break a child's spirit.

Sound theology should always lead us to doxology and transformation.

I've got more clothes than my wife.

If anyone can achieve the impossible it’s you. Please, please, get it again.

Referees don't come down here with a particular flavoured shirt on.

Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration.