New York is the perfect place for a film festival because there's already so much energy and life here, and New Yorkers love movies.

I studied in a Catholic school in Oahu, and I went to a film school in New York.

I just wasn't interested in going to New York, my interest wasn't TV or film. It was always the stage, musicals, Shakespeare.

There's a waiting list to get musical productions onstage in New York. But I basically rolled the dice and decided to keep the dates in San Francisco.

Film directors don't come to the theatre in Sydney. In London and New York, they do.

I was working as a stockbroker in New York and had the seemingly perfect life.