What The Dalai Lama Had To Resolve

We’re Face To Face With Images All The Time In A Way That We Never Have Been Before... Young People Need To Understand That Not All Images Are There To Be Consumed Like Fast Food And Then Forgotten – We Need To Educate Them To Understand The Difference Between Moving Images That Engage Their Humanity And Their Intelligence, And Moving Images That Are Just Selling Them Something.

We Cannot Burn Mick Jagger. We Want The Effect, But We Can't Burn Him.

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.

All My Life, I Never Really Felt Comfortable Anywhere In New York, Except Maybe In An Apartment Somewhere.

I Think All The Great Studio Filmmakers Are Dead Or No Longer Working. I Don't Put Myself, My Friends, And Other Contemporary Filmmakers In Their Category. I Just See Us Doing Some Work.