As You Grow Older, You Change.

I Know That I Come From Mid-20th Century America, Urban, Specifically Downtown New York, Specifically An Italian-american Area, Roman Catholic - That's Who I Am. And A Part Of What I Know Is There's A Decency To People Who Tried To Make A Living In The Kind Of World That Was Around Us And Also The Skid Row Area Of The Bowery; It Impressed Me.

My Films Really Have To Be A Part Of A Whole Body Of Work That Says Something To Me.

There Are Two Kinds Of Power You Have To Fight. The First Is The Money, And That's Just Our System. The Other Is The People Close Around You, Knowing When To Accept Their Criticism, Knowing When To Say No.

Mean Streets Dealt With The American Dream, According To Which Everybody Thinks They Can Get Rich Quick, And If They Can't Do It By Legal Means Then They'll Do It By Illegal Ones.

There Are Movies That Change The Whole Way In Which Films Are Made, Like Klute, Where Gordon Willis’s Photography On The Film Is So Textured, And, They Said, Too Dark.