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

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.

You have to strike hard from the beginning and create a depressurizing zone between the viewer's own life and the one onscreen. The creators of James Bond got it right: the attention-grabbing scene of each Bond movie is the very first one, before the opening credits.

The last film is always the most important.

Shame is very painful to endure. For me it makes perfect sense that the character would kill herself.

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

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