Your job is to get your audience to care about your obsessions.

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

I grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually.

Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.

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.

Actually, I was rock climbing on this film at 7 in the morning. It was quite unique! But in any event, the colour of the leaves disturbed me so we had to work on that. On the other hand, I didn't want to drench it in a kind of depressing tone.

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