That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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.
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.
But I'm 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 that's gonna stop me.
It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only thing we know for certain, right? Everyone's going to die, so what's the big problem? 'Oh, God. Don't talk about it. Don't think about it.' I mean, I'm one of them. I'm not a big fan of talking about dying.
As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.
I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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 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.
I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?
I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.
I don't have a problem with Werner Herzog.
Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
I don't care if I get $50m to do a film.
