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My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.
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A lot of what I'm obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father.
The fact that food plays such an important part in my films has everything to do with my family.
Food tells you everything about the way people live and who they are.
Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way.
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.
Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. It's a cacophony, it's like a madness I think that's been happening in the past twenty-five years. And I think anything that can help a person sit in a room alone and not worry about it is good.
I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind.
Working with HBO was an opportunity to experience creative freedom and 'long-form development' that filmmakers didn't have a chance to do before the emergence of shows like 'The Sopranos.'
Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.
The fact that food plays such an important part in my films has everything to do with my family.
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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
Dreams are necessary to life.
But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.
We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.
Our last jam session was this past Christmas. Dad played his harmonica, mom sang in English and Italian, and I played guitar. I'm so happy that we could share that musical experience for one last time.
I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.
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