Now you’re looking for the secret, but you won’t find it... because you’re not really looking. You don’t really want to know. You want to be fooled.
Newton’s third law – the only way humans have ever figured out of getting somewhere is to leave something behind.
To be honest, I’ve always made films and I never really stopped, starting with little stop-motion experiments using my dad’s Super 8 camera. In my mind, it’s all one big continuum of filmmaking and I’ve never changed.
A vigilante is just a man lost in the scramble for his own gratification. He can be destroyed or locked up. But if you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, and if they can’t stop you, then you become something else entirely.
I grew up in an era that was a golden age of the blockbuster, when something we might call a family film could have universal appeal. That’s something I want to see again. In terms of the tone of the film, it looks at where we are as a people and has a universality about human experience.
You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
The training is nothing! Will is everything! The will to act.