You have to put yourself in a situation, a lifestyle, that makes you do the work. Even if it's a monastery.

I just - I kind of see it that way. I find the higher angles down. I do - look, you can go back to the staircase shots in "Third Man" or the staircase in "La Dolce Vita." So I just find that visual construction in a frame.

It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods.

I prefer people who don't get caught, and if they do get caught, I prefer people who don't give in.

You have to put yourself in a situation, a lifestyle, that makes you do the work. Even if it's a monastery.

I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.

I think what happened there was just the budget would be too big to build these sets because nothing really exists here in New York of that period; you have to build it all.