Working with HBO was an opportunity to experience creative freedom and 'long-form development' that filmmakers didn't have a chance to do before the emergence of shows like 'The Sopranos.'

My father had this mythological sense of the old New York, and he used to tell me stories about these old gangs, particularly the Forty Thieves in the Fourth Ward.

I wouldn't presume to be God's point of view.

If it's a modern-day story dealing with certain ethnic groups, I think I could open up certain scenes for improvisation, while staying within the structure of the script.

If I'm not complaining, I'm not having a good time, hah hah!

Zombies, what are you going to do with them? Just keep chopping them up, shooting at them, shooting at them.

Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.