The crime film is the most honest American film.
It's a wonderful thing to go to work and have no idea what you're going to do.
Americans are not renowned for having a sense of irony.
Jesse James is like a Leonard Cohen song, I wanted to do something that was like a pop song.
I like violence to be upsetting. The only reason to do it subtley is if doing it subtley makes it more effective somehow.
I'm not a very efficient filmmaker. There's a lot of guys, filmmakers like the Coen Brothers who shoot a whole movie and maybe don't use 12 setups. I'm in awe of people like that; I'm just not that guy.