Obviously, a power player in a criminal organization doesnt have to persuade anyone. He can just do what he wants.

It always surprises me in films that killers seem so gleeful about killing people.

I imagine that in a closed, hermetic society like the mob, where everybody knows each other, it must be really, really unpleasant to have to kill people. It's the sort of thing you really want to avoid.

I'm from the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" school of screenwriting. I just like to preserve what works and ignore what doesn't work.

Americans are not renowned for having a sense of irony.

I like violence to be upsetting. The only reason to do it subtley is if doing it subtley makes it more effective somehow.

The fantasy gives you the courage to feel things.