STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- An independent filmmaker who was pulled from the train tracks early Sunday morning has declined several requests to thank the man who helped save his life, the New York Post is reporting, even as the good Samaritan remains in critical condition due to his heroics.

"I have nothing to say," Jonathan Parisen, 40, a former Stapleton resident living in East Orange, N.J., told the Post at the 120 Police precinct station house.

"No, no, no," he told a Post reporter who gave him several more chances to thank Steven Santiago.

Santiago, 39, of Stapleton, and one of Parisen’s friends, pulled Parisen off the tracks at the New Dorp train station at about 1:30 a.m., but according to law enforcement sources, Santiago became winded and bent over. He hung his head over the platform and was clipped by an approaching train.

"That's wrong. He's being selfish. He should thank him," Marisol Salgado, Santiago's girl friend, told the Post.

Santiago remains in critical condition at Staten Island University Hospital, Ocean Breeze. Law enforcement sources said everyone involved in the early morning incident happened to be intoxicated.

"I jumped in the tracks. I thought it was funny," Parisen told an MTA police officer, according to court papers.

Parisen was arraigned yesterday in Stapleton Criminal Court on a criminal trespass charge and released on $2,500 bail.

He declined comment "on the advice of my counsel" outside the courthouse yesterday.