Excerpt from an L.A. Times article - February 24, 2002
Kenneth Lonergan talks about GONY
Lonergan has also been spending time in the 19th century for Martin Scorsese, doing brush-up work on the filmmaker's "Gangs of New York," which is set in the 1860s. The film is due for release this summer. Scorsese has been something of a mentor, showing early interest in "Analyze This" and commissioning a screenplay, as yet unproduced, about an amateur archeologist. "I love the period and the material and working with him," Lonergan says of "Gangs" and its director. "But it wasn't a case of pursuing an artistic vision of my own." What fascinates him, he adds, are "these full-blown personalities moving through a historic milieu that has not been seen before in any American movie. The politics of the time affect what they do, and yet they really don't notice the world around them. It's a hard thing to balance, and Scorsese is wonderful at it."
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