I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.

I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.

We’re face to face with images all the time in a way that we never have been before... Young people need to understand that not all images are there to be consumed like fast food and then forgotten – we need to educate them to understand the difference between moving images that engage their humanity and their intelligence, and moving images that are just selling them something.

Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. Let the learning continue.

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

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.

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