You can be born-again and believe in Jesus, believe in Jesus' ideas and try to live them out, without becoming totally intolerant of other people.

Because of the movies I make, people get nervous. They think of me as difficult and angry. I am difficult and angry, but they don't expect a sense of humor. And the only thing that gets me through is a sense of humor.

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.

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?

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

I still dislike phones, yeah!

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