Your heart can only take you so far - sometimes the physical body tells you otherwise.
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.
At some point, a flash of sustained clarity reveals the difference between what someone would have you believe is true, and what you know from the depths of your own heart to the peaks of your soul to be true. What happens after that is up to you.
I think whenever you transform from normal light-hearted characters, to characters which might be out of your comfort zone or less relatable, that is double the work and commitment required to understand the society that character comes from.
I was a pretty heartbroken 13-year-old. That was the year my grandmother died and my parents split up.
I think that, as a writer, while it's your job to construct stories, you have to navigate your way through them with your heart.
Film is the medium for communicating not just ideas, but things of the heart.
Abe Ribicoff believes in that American dream. I believe it from the bottom of my heart, and your sons and daughters, too, can have the American dream come true.
Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
