I'm a product of older filmmakers I guess, the past where you get to make movies and scenes are what they are.

I believe in God, absolutely.

I like the opportunity to make films.

You could call it that [urban Western], I guess, you could certainly call it that. A lot of these types of films are, really, if you get down to the core most suspense thrillers in this genre, the Western is sort of the birth of it all.

Some men don't gel when it comes to work - you have different work ethics, different opinions, different points of views, different methods of filmmaking - and we didn't gel.

Sometimes violence in a very real way is much faster and more impactful because it feels real and you're watching it happen and you're watching your star do these things, so it's not like he's doing superhero moves.

I'd seen too many shrines in South Central and thought it was worth asking where the first bullet came from that started all this violence.