- "I hope that a younger generation will start to watch a movie like this and start to better understand a slower pace in a truly cinematic way."
- "People wear shorts to the Broadway theater. There should be a law against that."
- "I feel the prevailing view of Italian-Americans in Hollywood is that we are gangsters. "
- "As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting."
- "Then I go and act, and I watch directors and see what they do right, and what they do wrong, and that informs my next effort."
- "I like to use all of myself, and acting wasn't doing that."
- "It's a terrific feeling to know that you can realize your vision, right or wrong, and that somebody trusts you to do it."
- I'm always looking around for another play, but only for a short run. I did "Frankie and Johnnie in the Claire de Lune" onstage with Edie Falco for six months, and it was very hard. Once you get past 14 weeks, I go crazy
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