The gruesomeness of 'Death Line' was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political content of the film. I wanted to show how devastating class distinction could be.

The whole idea of 'Death Line' was to kind of highlight class distinctions in England more than to make a scary movie, and I just kind of wrapped my political treatise of the class distinctions in England in this movie.

I think that we, as a civilization, need to sit down and figure out how to solve political problems over a table, not over a battlefield.

Rich People plan for three generations
Poor people plan for Saturday night

They wanted to help me with my pain.

One of the great things going on in Chicago is the educational facilities here. And the largest film school in the world is right here in Chicago: Columbia College.