I am doing what I'm doing, and if you don't like it, don't go see it.

You get to be analytical about the process and now I can watch the movie and see all the different connection things and see all the things that are underneath the surface.

CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They're really doing it and risking their lives.

I steal from every single movie ever made. I love it - if my work has anything it's that I'm taking this from this and that from that and mixing them together. If people don't like that, then tough titty, don't go and see it, all right? I steal from everything. Great artists steal; they don't do homages.

One of the things when you write, well the way I write, is that you are writing your scenario and there are different roads that become available that the characters could go down. Screenwriters will have a habit of putting road blocks up against some of those roads because basically they can't afford to have their characters go down there because they think they are writing a movie or trying to sell a script or something like that. I have never put that kind of imposition on my characters. Wherever they go I follow.

I was trying to do like a spaghetti western but using World War II iconography.

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