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Detroit was kind of a random thing where it was like a chance to be in a rock 'n' roll movie.

I understand that Detroit was a pretty rough place to grow up in the '70s and '80s.

There are but two places where all go after death, white and black, rich and poor; those places are Heaven and Hell. Heaven is a place made for those, who are born again, and who love God, and it is a place where they will be happy for ever.

Detroit was a bad situation for me.

Definitely just growing up in general influenced me; Detroit happened to be where I was. I feel like the city definitely has made an impact on my life and made me who I am. Detroit has an unmistakable soul - nobody can duplicate the soul we bring to the game. From Motown to J Dilla to Eminem to anything.

Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.

I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.

Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it.

Detroit is a city that really stands out. It's been through a very difficult time. There's been a lot of pain here, and the city, physically, has suffered. You can see it in certain neighborhoods, and there's buildings downtown that have been abandoned.

I didn't want to make a literal film about Detroit, because it felt like what they were experiencing was more universal than that.