As a filmmaker, it's important to sit there and feel embarrassed. If you feel embarrassed by something, you cut it.
You obviously can't cast Brad [Pitt] as an everyman guy because he just brings way too much baggage.
It's a wonderful thing to go to work and have no idea what you're going to do.
The fantasy gives you the courage to feel things.
I always feel that crime films are about capitalism.
I'm sure part of the fascination with the film is voyeuristic - that we go to see somebody who's been struck by lightning.