"I'm a big fan of movies that are unapologetically violent."

"I like the way blood looks in black and white. It's like a Rorschach test."

"You don't go to see Metallica and ask the fuckers to turn the music down."

"Violence was like another character in the room. It hung over the proceedings. You kept waiting for every conversation to break out into it. So even if it was funny, the audience might have laughed, b…"

"I'm not trying to be politically correct. I'm just trying to tell a good story."