I'm not a Hollywood director. I'm an in spite of Hollywood director.

As a kid I watched the Academy Awards on television and always wanted one - or several - like one of my favorite directions, John Ford. He won six. On the other hand, Orson Welles, who's on the top of my list, didn't win any. Alfred Hitchcock didn't win any. Howard Hawks didn't win any.

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

I know that I come from mid-20th century America, urban, specifically downtown New York, specifically an Italian-American area, Roman Catholic - that's who I am. And a part of what I know is there's a decency to people who tried to make a living in the kind of world that was around us and also the Skid Row area of the Bowery; it impressed me.

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

A lot of what I'm obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father.

Vic Armstrong is, of course, a legend