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

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

I'm sure part of the fascination with the film is voyeuristic - that we go to see somebody who's been struck by lightning.

I always feel that crime films are about capitalism.

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.

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

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.