it gives you a toolbox you have meissner and strauss berg and stan miss schof ski, you have so much .ou can take from there, animal work, and so when -- out of school now and approaching a role i don't work the same way for each part. >> rose: tell me about your character in this film. >> i play a bill morales, who is latin-american immigrant, and who has come to this country and has worked hard. he was a truck driver and then got into sales and married the boss's daughter and was able to buy the company, and has a plan, has a plan to expand and it is a time in the city, 1981 which is one of the most violent years on record, new york city is is in a state of economic collapse and bankruptcy a great exodus is happening and people are leaving in droves and this man sees opportunity here, and he says when everyone is leaving i am going build, and he is an optimist, you know, he sees the other side of this thing and he thinks that if we can stick to the strategy, which is nonviolent and not resort to gangsterism and criminality we can make it to the goal. >> rose: how would you describe t