If movies are set in New York, they really should be shot in New York.
If movies are set in New York, they really should be shot in New York.
In the '80s, I can't say that Amy and I were aware of an independent film community. We could only get a certain amount of money for our pictures, which made them low budget movies, but they were distributed through studios.
Every movie is wildly different. So many of the problems are the same, but they take on different guises.
Although there was a screenplay, the actors never knew what questions I was going to ask them, and all of my character's voice-over narration and scenes were added after the fact.
My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound.
As a director, I've been able to combine with what I've learned as an actor and as a producer: it melds quite nicely into what I feel like I should have been doing all along.
I remember my earliest images of New York came from movies, and I couldn't believe that people lived on top of each other in tall buildings.
I came to New York to be an actor and I became a film producer first.
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