Hong Kong Cinema Is Something

I Don't Agree With Everything He Did In His Life, But We're Dealing With This Howard Hughes, At This Point. And Also Ultimately The Flaw In Howard Hughes, The Curse So To Speak.

Cinema Is A Matter Of What's In The Frame And What's Out.

I Know That I Come From Mid-20th Century America, Urban, Specifically Downtown New York, Specifically An Italian-american Area, Roman Catholic - That's Who I Am. And A Part Of What I Know Is There's A Decency To People Who Tried To Make A Living In The Kind Of World That Was Around Us And Also The Skid Row Area Of The Bowery; It Impressed Me.

Your Job Is To Get Your Audience To Care About Your Obsessions.

I Think What Happened There Was Just The Budget Would Be Too Big To Build These Sets Because Nothing Really Exists Here In New York Of That Period; You Have To Build It All.