So many movies are all storyboarded and plotted out so that everybody knows exactly what they're supposed to do. And I wanted to keep it to where nobody knew exactly what they were going to do. There was always that element that anything could happen. I think that works very well for the film. The thing about that kind of life, that outlaw life of drugs and crime, is that you make your own excitement.
Life can be pretty boring, and there's a lot of excitement in that kind of lifestyle.
I think that's one of the attractions to it. People get caught up in it and things happen very quickly and unplanned. The story just didn't feel contemporary to me at all. I also wanted to use more obscure tunes and turn people on to them. Kids, in particular, was construed by some critics as conservative because of a perceived lack of moral perspective.