Spielberg isn't a filmmaker, he's a confectioner.

I don't think about Hollywood at all.

I did not find my studies particularly enthralling.

I did a television series in Japan this year, which was really fun, even though it's working with a Japanese crew and I don't speak Japanese.

Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.

But I never saw any review that actually analysed the shooting style of Goodfellas appropriately and they would just pick up on this one long take.