The first element that I connected with was the emotion. Sorry, that's how it goes.

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.

My father had this mythological sense of the old New York, and he used to tell me stories about these old gangs, particularly the Forty Thieves in the Fourth Ward.

Young film makers should learn how to deal with the money and learn how to deal with the power structure. Because it is like a battle.

Alcohol decimated the working class and so many people.

I also saw the Dalai Lama a few times.