I see this as something of a morality tale, and men who earn their livelihood doing illegal things. The moral choices that they make in their life, the things that they decide to do the right thing about, I think is pretty compelling. There's something that's a universal truth in that.

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I wanted to tell a story about men. I was doing hopefully the anti- Ocean's Eleven . I didn't want (the characters) to look like that. I wanted them to look ... more real, like the face of America.

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