Appearance is valued too much in our society.

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.

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

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

The perfect crime is when you push someone to suicide. I once read a study that said everyone in the course of their life has thought of killing someone.

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