The real truth, I thought, in terms of what faith is and what Christianity is.

My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.

I think if you think of yourself as religious and if you're given a gift, some may not think it's that great a gift - some critics. But others might, you know. So you say, look - whether it's good, bad or indifferent, this is what I do.

You gotta understand, when moving images first started, people wanted sound, color, big screen and depth.

It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.

The more you see, especially being young, the more you see the past, the more you can draw upon that and the more you can make the present and the future. It's how you process the past and at oftentimes in the picture, there are references to certain imagery from certain pictures, and certain novels.

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.