It's a very American thing to hide away from death.

People always ask why I don't make independent movies. I do make independent movies - I just make them at Sony and Paramount.

I was always interested in films that scar.

Hire the right people and get the hell out of the way.

People will say, 'There are a million ways to shoot a scene,' but I don't think so. I think there are two, maybe. And the other one is wrong.

It's a very American thing to hide away from death.

I thought that the behavioral and some of the profiling stuff was interesting. The thing that I was most interested in, and the thing that we were really adament about, was let's get these guys who were there on tape, or in some kind of way, telling what happened. No one has really talked to them all.