In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.

A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.

I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.

A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn't want to go to the movies to watch a film about a woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing.

I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.

For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.