Hollwood creates useful entertainment. There are millions of people on earth who need distraction and American cinema fulfills that function.

I decided that one day I had to make a film where the viewer couldn't possibly guess the end.

If you want to kill someone, you'd better pull off a perfect crime. Our security lies in the fact that that's damnably hard to do.

The constant in my films is love stories. I consider love the chief business of humanity.

Film-making is like spermatozoa: only one in a million makes it.

Each time I hit a low point I learn the most. Failure is the best university.

Cinema is dominated by stars you like from the get go.