You get a different kick out of all aspects of filmmaking.

My approach to violence is that if it's pertinent, if that's the kind of movie you're making, then it has a purposeI think there's a natural system in your own head about how much violence the scene warrants. It's not an intellectual process, it's an instinctive process. I like to think it's not violence for the sake of violence and in this particular film, it's actually violence for the annihilation of violence.

We can all be conned but at what point do we realize that we're being conned and to what point do we allow ourselves to be conned?

I suppose directing on set is the most fun because it's a good crack and you feel you're on the battlefield whereas writing is a fairly solitary undertaking.

Sugar is responsible for a lot of deaths. Arguably more than crack cocaine.

If you change the rules on what controls you... you will change the rules on what you can control.

It's still too early to say how my wife will influence my life. But I do already know that it's sometimes hard work living with her.