I always feel that crime films are about capitalism.

I'm from the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" school of screenwriting. I just like to preserve what works and ignore what doesn't work.

You obviously can't cast Brad [Pitt] as an everyman guy because he just brings way too much baggage.

It always surprises me in films that killers seem so gleeful about killing people.

Masculine ideals have become very confused in the modern world.

It's very difficult to lie to yourself about certain things. I'm not necessarily convinced about how information is gathered and I don't think the credence that's given to it is valid.

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