The fantasy gives you the courage to feel things.

Americans are not renowned for having a sense of irony.

It's obviously a lot more of a political undertaking making a movie in Hollywood and it's a business there. In Australia, they don't expect films to make money; whereas in America they're counting on it.

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

I'm sure part of the fascination with the film is voyeuristic - that we go to see somebody who's been struck by lightning.

Masculine ideals have become very confused in the modern world.

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.