When you're a kid and you see gangsters living the life, you kind of want to be like that.

Anamorphic is very difficult because the distance from the lens to the person to focus is very long so you need a lot of distance from the camera to the person so that means that you need a lot of space.

Anamorphic doesn't really lend itself to the big shots.

I moved to Hollywood when I was 18. I never saw it as a disadvantage in any way. Quite the opposite.

I think that everything changes when it goes through the Mac; it's cheap. I think people then don't pay too much importance to the take, if you can do 40 takes.

When you're a kid and you see gangsters living the life, you kind of want to be like that.

Shooting digitally would not have been easier. Cameras are the same size. I always shoot on film unless I have a reason not to, which I haven't had yet.