Their life is about getting enough money to put food on the table to feed their children, and that's it.

I wanted to work on this central problem of killing. How you go about killing. Now, in the film I had to kill my children - well, I didn't want to get that far.

It's a sin to have your films not to make money.

It's been awhile. My Oscar is getting kind of tarnished. I looked at it a couple of years ago and thought I really needed a new one.

I've lived most of my life in Manhattan, but as close as Brooklyn is to Manhattan, there are people who live there who have been to Manhattan maybe once or twice.

I talked to women who lived there, to get their speech patterns and outlook on life - and how narrow that is.