I Like Being In Real Environments. I

You Could Call It That [urban Western], I Guess, You Could Certainly Call It That. A Lot Of These Types Of Films Are, Really, If You Get Down To The Core Most Suspense Thrillers In This Genre, The Western Is Sort Of The Birth Of It All.

I Believe In God, Absolutely.

I'd Seen Too Many Shrines In South Central And Thought It Was Worth Asking Where The First Bullet Came From That Started All This Violence.

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.

Sometimes Violence In A Very Real Way Is Much Faster And More Impactful Because It Feels Real And You're Watching It Happen And You're Watching Your Star Do These Things, So It's Not Like He's Doing Superhero Moves.