“Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.”
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Most Italians who came to this country are very patriotic. There was this exciting possibility that if you worked real hard, and you loved something, you could become successful.
They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd be sure to have some dough to support my family.
I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.
When newspapers started to publish the box office scores of movies, I was horrified. Those results are totally fake because they never include the promotion budget.
