Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place.
“When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer.”
“When I was a kid going to the movies, we'd go because Bogart was in the movie, or Cagney, or John Wayne. We didn't know what the story was about or anything.”