I sometimes follow people who attract my curiosity in the street for five, ten minutes.

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.

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

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

It's funny: half my films were flops, half did well. It would be terrible if I'd had only success.

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.

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