I always feel that crime films are about capitalism.

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

Americans are not renowned for having a sense of irony.

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.

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

I always feel that crime films are about capitalism.

It's a wonderful thing to go to work and have no idea what you're going to do.