I Just Wanted To Be An Ordinary

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

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.

If You Don’t Like The Films Of Samuel Fuller , Then You Just Don’t Like Cinema.

I Don't Like Being In Houses Alone.

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.