You make a deal. You figure out how much sin you can live with.
Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.
I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind.
If I'm not complaining, I'm not having a good time, hah hah!
People say you should do it this way, someone else suggests that, yes, there's financing, but maybe you should use this actor. And there are the threats, at the end - if you don't do it this way, you'll lose your box office; if you don't do it that way, you'll never get financed again... 35, 40 years of this, you get beat up.
The term 'giant' is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the rare instances where the term fits.
I always say that I've been in a bad mood for maybe 35 years now. I try to lighten it up, but that's what comes out when you get me on camera.
I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty. Some of the cops were even friends of ours. But a cop can go both ways.
You gotta understand, when moving images first started, people wanted sound, color, big screen and depth.
I've always liked 3D.
I love the look of planes and the idea of how a plane flies. The more I learn about it the better I feel; while I still may not like it, I have a sense of what is really happening.
I was born in 1942, so I was mainly aware of Howard Hughes' name on RKO Radio Pictures.
If everything moves along and there are no major catastrophes we're basically headed towards holograms.
I don't like being in houses alone.
All my life, I never really felt comfortable anywhere in New York, except maybe in an apartment somewhere.
The young people today are the 21st century.
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 don't think there's a subject matter that can't absorb 3-D; that can't tolerate the addition of depth as a storytelling technique.
Part of making any endeavour is that each one has its own special problems. It's the nature of the process.
People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.
As you grow older, you change.
I'd like to do a number of films. Westerns. Genre pieces. Maybe another film about Italian Americans where they're not gangsters, just to prove that not all Italians are gangsters.
If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?
Hong Kong cinema is something you can't duplicate anyway.
Well, I think in my own work the subject matter usually deals with characters I know, aspects of myself, friends of mine - that sort of thing.
I don't really see many people... don't really go anywhere either.
The bottom line is, I tend to be going back to older and older music.
I'm an older generation.
When I was growing up, I don't remember being told that America was created so that everyone could get rich. I remember being told it was about opportunity and the pursuit of happiness. Not happiness itself, but the pursuit.
Young film makers should learn how to deal with the money and learn how to deal with the power structure. Because it is like a battle.
My father had this mythological sense of the old New York, and he used to tell me stories about these old gangs, particularly the Forty Thieves in the Fourth Ward.