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Americans are not renowned for having a sense of irony.

I don't think human beings have changed in 2,000 years.

Obviously, a power player in a criminal organization doesn't have to persuade anyone. He can just do what he wants.

I write a number of screenplays, and I've never really come up with a part for a movie star.

I like violence to be upsetting. The only reason to do it subtley is if doing it subtley makes it more effective somehow.

Everybody is always trying to make the best movie they can. It's a process.

Masculine ideals have become very confused in the modern world.

America's moved so much of its production and manufacturing offshore, it's become a nation of middlemen.

It always surprises me in films that killers seem so gleeful about killing people.

Jesse James is like a Leonard Cohen song, I wanted to do something that was like a pop song.

When men organize themselves into groups, and they make rules based on common or self-interest, it's always tangled and political.

You obviously can't cast Brad [Pitt] as an everyman guy because he just brings way too much baggage.

The fantasy gives you the courage to feel things.

I don't know whether crime is dictating business or business is dictating crime.

As a filmmaker, it's important to sit there and feel embarrassed. If you feel embarrassed by something, you cut it.

It seems like women don't want men to be men anymore. They want men to be women. But they really don't want what they say they want. It's very weird.

The crime film is the most honest American film.

A lot of writing's going down dead ends that don't go anywhere.

I like test screenings. I like to see a movie with an audience of strangers. I think it tells you a lot.

Actors have either got to play something that's close to them, or something that's the complete opposite.

Crime is a job and it's boring. It's also unpleasant.

I'm from the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" school of screenwriting. I just like to preserve what works and ignore what doesn't work.