You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
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.
The training is nothing! Will is everything! The will to act.