It's interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant.

There was always a part of me that wanted to be an old-time director. But I couldn't do that. I'm not a pro.

you can't fight crime if you don't fight corruption and impunity.

I always say that I've been in a bad mood for maybe 35 years now. I try to lighten it up, but that's what comes out when you get me on camera.

One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s.

The defendant has been proven guilty of participating in a crime of corruption. The punishment is five years.