Does his religious faith exert a positive or negative influence on his decisions?
You know what, quite possibly. Personally, he is this man who is educated, he takes his child to Shakespeare plays, or he used to…this man is well educated and well versed. He is religious; he goes to church every Sunday. He’s just a quiet family man who adores his family and adores being with them. I don’t believe anybody from any creed, religion, or whatever, has any right to…but I just wanted the contrast to be there. The violence in the movie is particularly disturbing. Do you find that these days violence in film has become so passe, that the only way to shock an audience is to take it to the next extreme? My intention wasn’t to shock the audience. My intention was to show how inhumane people treat each other, and how wrong it is. People think it is nothing to see someone in a movie get shot and die. Or worse shoot 50-60 people in a movie. But we just go with it. The loss of life is tremendous! But when we see someone teasing somebody, and we’re in there with them, and they’re
