 I also saw the Dalai Lama a few times. |
| More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down. |
| I think what happened there was just the budget would be too big to build these sets because nothing really exists here in New York of that period; you have to build it all. |
| If it's a modern-day story dealing with certain ethnic groups, I think I could open up certain scenes for improvisation, while staying within the structure of the script. |
| There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard. |
| I grew up within Italian-American neighborhoods, everybody was coming into the house all the time, kids running around, that sort of stuff, so when I finally got into my own area, so to speak, to make films, I still carried on. |
| I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction. |
| I can't really envision a time when I'm not shooting something. |
| I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind. |
| Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was. |
