I Believe In God, Absolutely.

I Started Studying Mythology, Just On My Own. Joseph Campbell, Mysticism.

I Like Being In Real Environments. I Love Being In The Place That It's About - These Sets And Locations Are Characters In The Movies. Can You Imagine Breakfast At Tiffany's Shot Somewhere Else? It's Classic. Characters Are Part Of Storytelling; They're Just As Important As Everything Else.

Tupac Shakur Is Something That, Of Course I Want To Make The Tupac Movie, I Love Tupac, But When That Movie Was Announced, We Didn't Even Have A Script Yet. It Was Just Being Written. People Announce Things Too Soon. If You Go To Any Filmmaker - Clint Eastwood, Oliver Stone, Martin Scorsese, Ben Affleck, Michael Mann - You Go In Their Offices And There Are Scripts Everywhere And There's About Four Or Five Of Them You Really Want To Make.

There Are Many Stories Of People Didn't Set Out To Make A Film That Became A Classic - The Whole Process Was A Disaster, Everybody Hated Each Other, The Movie Itself Was A Disaster, Everybody Thought The Movie And The Script Was Going To Be A Piece Of Crap. Look At Alfred Hitchcock And Psycho. Nobody Wanted To Make Psycho; It Was Crap To Them. The Only Person That Wanted To Make Psycho Was Hitchcock. Now, It's Considered A Classic And A Work Of Art.

The Outsider Hero Is Hero Riding Into Town, He's The Gunslinger, Shame - The Same Thing, He Didn't Want To Do It Anymore, He Wanted To Live A Different Life But Part Of Who You Are Sort Of Haunts You And You Can't Run Away From Evil And If You Have Special Skills, And Most People Are Mistreated, Which Is Unfortunately In Our World, We Always Need An Equalizer, That Type Of Character To Come To Our Rescue.