You've got to love something enough to kill it.

Food tells you everything about the way people live and who they are.

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.

Zombies, what are you going to do with them? Just keep chopping them up, shooting at them, shooting at them.

When I'm making a film, I'm the audience.

All my life, I never really felt comfortable anywhere in New York, except maybe in an apartment somewhere.

I think if you think of yourself as religious and if you're given a gift, some may not think it's that great a gift - some critics. But others might, you know. So you say, look - whether it's good, bad or indifferent, this is what I do.