I think there's only one or two films where I've had all the financial support I needed. All the rest, I wish I'd had the money to shoot another ten days.
— Martin Scorsese
I'm going to be 60, and I'm almost used to myself.
It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods.
Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.
And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.
I think what happened there was just the budget would be too big to build these sets because nothing really exists here in New York of that period; you have to build it all.
I'm very phobic about flying, but I'm also drawn to it.
More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down.
It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.
There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.
I was born in 1942, so I was mainly aware of Howard Hughes' name on RKO Radio Pictures.
If it's a modern-day story dealing with certain ethnic groups, I think I could open up certain scenes for improvisation, while staying within the structure of the script.
What the Dalai Lama had to resolve was whether to stay in Tibet or leave. He wanted to stay, but staying would have meant the total destruction of Tibet, because he would have died and that would have ripped the heart out of his people.
There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.
