Masculine ideals have become very confused in the modern world.
Jesse James is like a Leonard Cohen song, I wanted to do something that was like a pop song.
It always surprises me in films that killers seem so gleeful about killing people.
The fantasy gives you the courage to feel things.
Obviously, a power player in a criminal organization doesnt have to persuade anyone. He can just do what he wants.
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.