At Ellis Island, I mean, you didn't go there if you arrived in first class. It was only the poorest, the people in the worst shape.
At a certain point, you have to kind of realize that greatness is a messy thing.
I was going to Studio 54 when I was 12 years old. It's true. It's crazy.
'Apocalypse Now' does not alienate us or deconstruct itself. In fact, it welcomes us in.
As ugly an admission as this is, I met my wife at a party, and if I had been to the same party and she were dressed in different clothes, I might never have talked to her. She might have projected something that I found distasteful, even if she other...
I'm just not willing to give up on myself. If I'm going to fail, then I want to fail to the limits of my talent.
It's hard to run away from who you are, and when your taste is formed is a very important thing.
I'm telling you, every film I've ever made has been hated by the U.K. critics.
The first movie, I was 23; I thought I knew everything, but my ego soon took an irrevocable blow.
Most people don't watch a movie four or five times; they watch it once.
It's much easier to make a movie with kind of stylistic pyrotechnics because you can hide behind that if there's a gap in the story.
Sean Penn has announced his retirement from acting about 72 times.
I'm not a website guy, although I'm not a Luddite, either. I have looked at a computer, but I don't go to PopSugar and Goop and all that.
There's never really been a tradition of making films about Jewish themes or using Judaism as a constant.
William Atherton has a very different acting style to Bonnie Bedelia; she has a very different style than Bruce Willis.
When I was quite young, I dreamed of being a painter.
The opera in Los Angeles is excellent.
Anyone who starts badmouthing Latino immigrants is not only a racist but ignorant. You need to refer them to what was written about the Irish, the Jews, the Italians, any group you want.
'Apocalypse Now' poses questions without any attempt to provide definitive answers, and the film's profound ambiguities are integral to its enduring magic.
I continually marvel at people who can make films that reach five hundred million people. How do you do that? Everybody's different - I don't know how that works.
I am an Ashkenazi Jew, and there are a whole host of genetic disorders that only Ashkenazi Jews have. I don't know if you know this, but 16 or 17 disorders that we carry the gene for.
