But in a true story, I never would. It seems as if you always come back to the subject of law, whether you're dealing with an outlaw, a lawyer or a police officer. It's the basis of everything. Then you come to that separation between law and justice. As every lawyer knows, sometimes they don't go together.
Lawyers find themselves using literal legalities to, in a sense, evade the justice of the situation.
In your films there is sometimes a separation between finding truth and finding justice. A survey of your films suggests that our present legal system works many times to crush truth, and if truth is revealed, it's at a really kind of terrible price, as in Prince of the City or Serpico . I think it's completely accurate, and all of this within the framework of, as far as I know, one of the best legal systems in the world. I've served on a jury three times. It was a great experience, by the way.