I'll write for a while and then I'll find an appropriate song and in a weird way the music will keep me in the mood. I find music to define the mood of the movie, the rhythm the movie is going to play in.

Suddenly, Westerns, which were our action films and what the working man went to see to blow off steam and have a good time, became boring to most people growing up from the Eighties on, because they're kind of pastoral.

You can do all these kinds of things that are up close and personal, but you really have to bring your strength, and really - you have to really be committed to actually strangle the life out of somebody, to crush their larynx and just squeeze every drop of life out of them.

I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.

As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.

I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.