If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia you quickly come to understand that you have been set apart and that there's no will in this society to bring you back into the mainstream.
For a romantic comedy to be three hours long that's longer than most...
For a number of years I'd been around the kind of people who financed movies...
I don't know how to depict intelligence.
I think intelligence is totally subjective it's like sexiness.