Being a father at a later age is different from when I had my other two daughters when I was in my 20s and 30s. If you're in your 60s and you're with the kid every day, you're dealing with the mind of a child, so it opens up that childishness in you again.

One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s.

Could you double-check the envelope?

I tried for about two semesters in a preparatory seminary. But I was about 15 and didn't fully understand what a vocation means.

There are times when you have to face your enemies, sit down and deal with it.

There's a way that the force of disappointment can be alchemized into something that will paradoxically renew you.

Hong Kong cinema is something you can't duplicate anyway.