I always feel that crime films are about capitalism.

The fantasy gives you the courage to feel things.

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.

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.

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

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.