Meeting Dominic: "He was quite hard with me at first. He said, 'My brother was offered a contract to kill you. He hasn't done the job.' . . . He kind of respected me because I could look him in the eyes, and I've seen plenty of life, and he's seen plenty of life, both from different sides. . . . In the end, we had a picture of his life and his personality and his world, rather than just a picture of his crimes."

Rocking the Funky Beats: "Thirty percent of the making of this film went to the music, because I really feel that music . . . allows you to live and breathe and smell, really inhale the scenes, the oceans, the geography of the place."

Gangster Lingo: "James Joyce, when he was writing Ulysses and The Dubliners, he would sit in booths in pubs in Dublin and he would listen to the locals drinking next door, and he would be recording it. We really did a kind of James Joyce eavesdropping into [Noonan's] world. Their language is so from the gutter it's Dickensian."

Best line of the movie, courtesy of Noonan's crooning godson: "Yeah, I sing mostly. Every gangster family has a singer. I sing at weddings, funerals and acquittals. Mostly acquittals."

Screenings: Monday, 10:30 p.m., Broadway Centre Cinemas, Salt Lake City; Tuesday, 8:30 a.m. Holiday Village Cinema II

- Dan Nailen