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

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

I see a film as a puzzle, with a beginning, middle, and end, but I like to start at the end sometimes.

I've seen many films and read lots of thrillers - and I'm always disappointed that I can guess the story before the other viewers.

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.

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