The last film is always the most important.

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

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.

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

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.