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1. I really believed Obama when he spoke in 2008, but I remember watching his victory speech after this last election and it was the same speech. Exactly the same speech. I felt like he didn’t even believe it anymore. He seemed to be tired of saying the same thing.
2. I actually don’t like westerns much. I like good westerns, but it isn’t my preferred genre. There are all kinds of westerns: acid westerns, ’70s westerns, Nicholas Ray’s neurotic westerns. The ones I tend to like are nutso westerns.
3. I don’t know whether crime is dictating business or business is dictating crime.
4. I don’t think human beings have changed in 2,000 years.
5. Obviously, a power player in a criminal organization doesn’t have to persuade anyone. He can just do what he wants.
6. I like test screenings. I like to see a movie with an audience of strangers. I think it tells you a lot.
7. 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.
8. Once you do something violent in a film, you don’t have to do too much. You do it once and the feeling of violence just stays there, do you know what I’m saying?
9. America’s moved so much of its production and manufacturing offshore, it’s become a nation of middlemen.
10. Sometimes you do complete run-throughs of scenes, sometimes you break scenes down into little bits. It just depends on what the actors like to do. It’s almost like jamming.
11. Actors have either got to play something that’s close to them, or something that’s the complete opposite.
12. Everybody is always trying to make the best movie they can. It’s a process.
13. Masculine ideals have become very confused in the modern world.
14. For me, the movie’s always evolving as I’m doing it. I throw things in as we shoot, and I take things out as we go. I want to create a whole life and then select the pieces that best sort of describe it later, you know? So there’s a lot of wastage when I make a film.
15. In Australia, we point out a person’s weaknesses as a way of saying ‘I see you and I accept you’. If you do that with Americans, they instantly take offence.
16. Crime is a job and it’s boring. It’s also unpleasant.
17. Actors look for characters. If they read a well-written character, and if they think the director’s not an idiot, they’re going to sign up and do some acting.
18. There’s been about 75 movies about Jesse James, and I’ve seen about four of them. He’s usually portrayed as this plucky rebel who’s got no choice but to turn to crime, because the railway’s hassling his mother. But he wasn’t like that.
19. I always feel that crime films are about capitalism because it is a genre where it is perfectly acceptable for all the characters to be motivated by the desire for money. In some ways, the crime film is the most honest American film because it portrays Americans as I experience a lot of them, in Hollywood, as being very concerned with money.
20. Sometimes you see a movie and you can really feel that it’s an actor putting in a performance. Someone said ‘cut’ and they’re back in their trailer having a coffee or getting their hair done.