I like test screenings. I like to see a movie with an audience of strangers. I think it tells you a lot.

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.

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

Americans are not renowned for having a sense of irony.

I like test screenings. I like to see a movie with an audience of strangers. I think it tells you a lot.

Jesse James is like a Leonard Cohen song, I wanted to do something that was like a pop song.