“We’re programmed to think that New York exists in some lofty, realizing-our-dreams sort of place,” he told me. “But really it’s right there at street level.”

A kind of loving waterboarding.

Carel Rowe and Ferd Eggan were amateur filmmakers looking to film their wedding night and sell it to repay some debts.

Pursuit is everything. The struggle is everything. The achievement is hardly ever satisfying.