I don't like being in houses alone.

The most important thing is the script.

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.

Well the thing is that the New York of 1846 to 1862 was very different from downtown New York now. Really nothing from that period still exists in New York.

Vic Armstrong is, of course, a legend

Sometimes when you're heavy into the shooting or editing of a picture, you get to the point where you don't know if you could ever do it again.

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