If We Don't Tell Our

Every Frame And Every Scene Has To Have An Intention.

I Am An Independent Film-maker First And Foremost. I Have Always Cut My Own Cloth.

Truth Is More Peculiar Than Fiction. Life Is Really A Startling Place.

You Know, The Sad Thing Of Post-9/11, Which Was Of Course Horrific, Was That The City In Which I Felt Completely At Home For Two Decades, Suddenly People Like Us - Brown People - Were Looked At As The 'others.'

I Know What It's Like To Be In One Place And Dream Of Another. I Also Know What It's Like To Feel That Nostalgia Is A Fairly Useless Thing Because It Is Stasis.