“You get this beautiful view of something really majestic and somehow you still feel a squalor around it, a sense of abandonment — which I think is a big part of not just this city, but the American promise. That was something we were trying to explore: What does it mean to have once been great? That’s something in the character... and it’s something in Los Angeles.”

Source: Los Angeles Times September 10, 2018 10:02 UTC