Criminals interest me, because they're driven by the same desires as we are, but they take these disastrous shortcuts and end up in a real mess.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie.
I don't know that I am fascinated with crime. I'm fascinated with people and their characters and their obsessions and what they do. And these things lead to crime, but I'm much more fascinated in their minds.
I've always been tremendously interested in criminal law. It goes to a deep interest I have in prisons and the criminal element, and what we do as a society with it. I've always been touched by the idea of criminality.
People who do crime do it for reward. But you end up in jail - that's no reward. Through crime, your ambitions are low.
We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do.
What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that's been given to them, and find some dignity.
Well, I have an interest in power. I have an interest in people who find themselves in the position to exercise absolute power.
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
There are two things that interest me - and they're both power, ultimately. One is not having it and one is abusing it.
I have always stuck to my guns about what I want from the work and what interests me. I've never been seduced down the evil path. The path of taking the money.