"Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models."

"It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh."

"The last day of your life is still going to be a day."

"A script is not a piece of literature it's a process."

"Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal."

"I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war."

"If we know that our own men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the enemy is not open to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory."

"If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success."