Using the energy in a scene can really cut the fat off of something and streamline it. It can make it work for you and activate it for you in a way.

Everybody's got a dud. You can't get out of it. That's the price of admission: you'll get some duds. You'll get some things where you missed a little. It's a crap feeling when you're going through it. But the main thing is as long as you're not doing anything for cynical reasons, then you'll be okay.

I think it's really hard to work in a city where you live too, because I get so absorbed with the movie that I become a bad friend and a bad participant in my own life.

I love shooting in New York because I love the city. Ultimately, I like doing it there and the city is important to the story, but it can be hard to shoot where you live too because it is so all-absorbing.

I think in general with micro-budget films right now, it's rough. The economy is rough. I think that affects everyone from big filmmakers to tiny filmmakers.

Movies are now more often watched on the small screen anyway. But at least for me, what got lost in that is the difference in the medium.

You feel sadness for time passing. New York is a city that keeps reinventing itself, and I love it so much.