Americans are not renowned for having a sense of irony.

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

I like violence to be upsetting. The only reason to do it subtley is if doing it subtley makes it more effective somehow.

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

I think the film gives you a picture of a person. It gives you a complete picture.

I like test screenings. I like to see a movie with an audience of strangers. I think it tells you a lot.

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.