I had been making a lot of family oriented movies, which I also like. But I still have a passion for the midnight audience and for midnight movies.

I wanted to make an image for myself as an outlaw type. A kind of rock 'n' roll sensibility.

I haven't made anything I don't believe in. I've always started a movie with a song in my heart, and even when I'm a little unclear about it, something magical happens and it comes into focus in a way that I'm feeling good about.

Idris Elba is a grand actor. He's very larger than life; he's bigger than life.

You aren't a true internationalist until you've supplied weapons to kill your own countrymen.

The only way the devil really exists in my opinion... is in interactions with people who don't walk the walk and talk the talk; people who act one way, or talk one way and then do another. Those are the deals with the devil. I don't see the devil as somebody who is a horned, goateed guy with a fork in his hand that's there to continuously stab me and send my soul to hell. I don't see it that way at all.

I believe that there's a way to question authority with manners, with dignity. There's no reason to be rude about it.