Even The Impostors, as silly as it is, is a very intimate film, in a way.

3D movie is tedious, its tedious for everybody, it's hard for the crew, it's hard for the actors. It adds more time. It's more technically complicated, so that just adds more time and takes a little more time away from he acting and that's kind of frustrating but to say "I'll never do 3D again" that doesn't make any sense.

Like Joseph Mitchell, I would scour the streets of New York and find little pieces of what other people think of as junk - and collect it.

I was always attracted to the past as a kid.

Every character, no matter who you play, at times is pretending to be somebody else. People have a public face and a private face.

I'd read Up in the Old Hotel, and I wanted to do something with Mitchell's stuff for a long time.

As a director you have to be careful you don't over-design the film. You have to be careful that the period aspect does not take over.