Biography

July 22, 1925 · Jersey City, New Jersey, USA

December 22, 2014 · Malibu, California, USA (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)

Giuseppe Daniele Sorgente

The people content is what turns me on. I'm not turned on by cops, chases and too much melodrama. But I am by relationship stories.

[about the real way to stop a runaway train, as opposed to what was shown in The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)] What [Martin Balsam] does in the film, when he sets up all that paraphernalia to defeat the Dead Man's Switch, that's all Mickey Mouse. That's not the way you'd do it. And I still don't know to this day how it's done.