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

During Prohibition, Atlantic City created the idea of the speakeasy, which turned into nightclubs and that extraordinary political complexity and corruption coming out of New Jersey at the time. The long hand that they had-and maybe still do-even had to do with presidential elections.

I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.

Music and film are inseparable. They always have been and always will be.

The most important thing is, how can I move forward towards something that I can't articulate, that is new in storytelling with moving images and sound?

Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was.

It's interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant.