Best 15 quotes of Andrew Dominik on MyQuotes

Americans are not renowned for having a sense of irony.

As a filmmaker, it's important to sit there and feel embarrassed. If you feel embarrassed by something, you cut it.

I always feel that crime films are about capitalism.

I like test screenings. I like to see a movie with an audience of strangers. I think it tells you a lot.

I like violence to be upsetting. The only reason to do it subtley is if doing it subtley makes it more effective somehow.

I'm from the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" school of screenwriting. I just like to preserve what works and ignore what doesn't work.

I'm not a very efficient filmmaker. There's a lot of guys, filmmakers like the Coen Brothers who shoot a whole movie and maybe don't use 12 setups. I'm in awe of people like that; I'm just not that guy.

It always surprises me in films that killers seem so gleeful about killing people.

It's obviously a lot more of a political undertaking making a movie in Hollywood and it's a business there. In Australia, they don't expect films to make money; whereas in America they're counting on it.

It's very difficult to lie to yourself about certain things. I'm not necessarily convinced about how information is gathered and I don't think the credence that's given to it is valid.

Jesse James is like a Leonard Cohen song, I wanted to do something that was like a pop song.

Masculine ideals have become very confused in the modern world.

Obviously, a power player in a criminal organization doesnt have to persuade anyone. He can just do what he wants.

The crime film is the most honest American film.

You obviously can't cast Brad [Pitt] as an everyman guy because he just brings way too much baggage.