My working-class Italian-American parents didn't go to school, there were no books in the house.

People say you should do it this way, someone else suggests that, yes, there's financing, but maybe you should use this actor. And there are the threats, at the end - if you don't do it this way, you'll lose your box office; if you don't do it that way, you'll never get financed again... 35, 40 years of this, you get beat up.

A lot of what I'm obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father.

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