You need cliches. Cliches are what people respond to.
Im as conservative as they come.
Crime, money, power, drugs - are all linked.
I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.
Being a producer, I deal with a lot of different directors, and some of them would drive me insane with all the different histrionics, and the mystique that they carry.
I'm not a member of a minority but I can empathize with what's going on.