The last day of your life is still going to be a day.

Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am except I wont answer the door.

In the film business its basically honor among thieves.

I dont know what DVD commentaries are about. Id like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.

But Im never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing thats gonna stop me.

I grew up in the 60s which was a creative time so it wasnt that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.

Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience but you dont find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.

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

Im about my characters.

I come from a world where you get the film done thats a success.

With New Rose Hotel I knew that I was getting paid a $100000 fee to write produce and direct and thats all I was going to get.

Certain actors wanna get paid they think working in a low-budget movie is being ripped off. But for others its like Yes lets do it.

As barbaric is we are its a miracle we havent blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.

I was born in the Bronx and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.

I was raised a Catholic and when youre raised a Catholic they dont teach you to think for yourself. Youre taught not to think too deeply about things.

I dont care if I get $50m to do a film.

Im not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.

My existence is about making movies so Ive just got to rock and roll with the punches. You want to make movies on telephones Im there.

Im a lapsed Buddhist like Im a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.

My life is proof that I dont need you to do what I do. If theres no one to see it Ill watch it.

Life is what happens when youre doing other things right?

Where I come from youre not raised to think on your own. Its not that youre pushed to read the Bible. The Bible is read to you.

I dont care if I get $50 million to do a film.

I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.

I dont have a problem with Werner Herzog.

No one can stop me from talking about my movie.