I'd Seen Too Many Shrines In South

So It's Hard To Be An Artist And Be True To The Reality Of The World You Want To Create And Also Make It Entertaining And Successful Financially.

I Don't Think The Audience Goes And Thinks Of The Movie As A Piece Of Art - There Are Some Independent People Who May Go And Have A Higher Appreciation For Filmmaking. It Is A Great Art Form, But I Don't Think You Look At A Painting And A Movie With The Same Eye.

I Like Making Movies.

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 Violence You Witness Is Denzel Doing It And We're Taking Some Visual Effects And Doing Some Things And You See Something Happen It's Happening In Front Of You As Opposed To Cutting Away And Doing A Bunch Of Tricks. It's In Front Of You. So It's Hard Not To Make It A Hard "r" If You See A Guy Get Punched And Teeth Wind Up In Someone's Knuckles.