I don't really watch many heist movies. Actually, I have quite eclectic tastes, but I tend to watch just foreign films. I don't know why that is. I'm not particularly deep or anything, I just like foreign movies.
Personally, I've always liked movies about big diamonds, like 'Pink Panther' and 'The Thomas Crown Affair.' I've always found those films really interesting, and they have a good energy about them, which I like.
I guess why the Ocean's films are hard for me is because on the one hand you have to make sure the performances are there, but on the other hand it's a film that demands, to my mind, a very layered and complex visual scheme. That takes a lot of time to figure out.
I like crime movies where the crime is so incredible that, attractive as it seems, you don't wanna do it because it's just too dangerous.
I like heist movies. I like action movies that set all the elements into one and a chance to do something that comes from a great stable of writing.
You know how in every heist movie they get past the security cameras that show the hallway leading to the diamonds by jamming the screens with a fake signal of everything looking safe and quiet? Usually a guard coughs so they don't notice the blip from switching to the bogus feed.
I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.
I have seen both versions of 'The Italian Job' and loved both of them.
Where would heist movies be without the Big Score - that payoff so irresistible it can lure the most jaded desperado out of hiding?
I've always loved the genre of gangster films.
I don't really watch many heist movies. Actually, I have quite eclectic tastes but I tend to watch just foreign films.
Some of the greatest movies of all time are within this genre, 'The Godfather,' and 'Goodfellas,' and 'Untouchables' and there's just so many classic gangster movies that I was always such a fan of.
I'm the number-one fan of gangster movies.
Heist movies tend to be a bit superficial, glamorous, and fun. They don't tend to be emotionally engaging.
