In Australia, we point out a person’s weaknesses as a way of saying ‘I see you and I accept you’. If you do that with Americans, they instantly take offence. Andrew Dominik Read Quote
There’s been about 75 movies about Jesse James, and I’ve seen about four of them. He’s usually portrayed as this plucky rebel who’s got no choice but to turn to crime, because the railway’s hassling his mother. But he wasn’t like that. Andrew Dominik Read Quote
I actually don’t like westerns much. I like good westerns, but it isn’t my preferred genre. There are all kinds of westerns: acid westerns, ’70s westerns, Nicholas Ray’s neurotic westerns. The ones I tend to like are nutso westerns. Andrew Dominik Read Quote
I read books all the time. I’m just half looking for something to do; I mostly just read for pleasure. Occasionally I stumble across something that could be a movie, but I don’t put a book down just because I don’t see a movie in it, either. Andrew Dominik Read Quote
Once you do something violent in a film, you don’t have to do too much. You do it once and the feeling of violence just stays there, do you know what I’m saying? Andrew Dominik Read Quote
For me, the movie’s always evolving as I’m doing it. I throw things in as we shoot, and I take things out as we go. I want to create a whole life and then select the pieces that best sort of describe it later, you know? So there’s a lot of wastage when I make a film. Andrew Dominik Read Quote
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. Andrew Dominik Read Quote
I write a number of screenplays, and I’ve never really come up with a part for a movie star. Andrew Dominik Read Quote
I like test screenings. I like to see a movie with an audience of strangers. I think it tells you a lot. Andrew Dominik Read Quote
