By the time I get there, lights are ready, camera's loaded, sound is ready. If they'd have said do it on video I would have done it on video. Then someone said, 'If you shoot in color film and you don't know how to do the lighting you'll fuck it all up,' so I said, 'O.K., I better shoot in black and white. The result of Singer's painstaking process is a dreamlike journey to and from an emotional and physical purgatory. He borrowed money, sold everything he owned, maxed out about ten credit cards, and to this day, is still squatting in friends' apartments.
Singer is more interested in humanity than in politics.
I have respect for people. I try to understand people, not to judge them. I made a very conscious decision to not preach. Despite this ardent objectivism, the film has a surprisingly optimistic, controversial ending, which should add to the currently heated policy debate about homelessness in New York City. I have nothing but good memories.