I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
The world is constantly changing. You're constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark, and get off your spot and take that knowledge you have not to fix yourself into a place but to keep going.
Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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.
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'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
I direct, and I make movies I can't finance. I can't raise money. I can't sell anything. I make things.
Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
I don't need to push myself. I don't need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat. I'm trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
My job is going to be to direct the film - I'm going to do it. And that's where my job ends.
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.
I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
A lifetime isn't long enough to learn how to make films.
Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?
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.
The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself. How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this 'I, me, mine' type of thing.
There's a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
Even if you're a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you're still in the world - although I guess being a poet is a different than having to deal with 40 or 50 people to raise a couple million bucks and all that bullshit.
My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy. He came to New York when he was 20. He lived in the States from age 20 to 96, but he brought his culture with him, he brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
