The most heroic thing you can do is tell someone that you love them.

I think that cinema has always progressed through exchanges.

I don't feel comfortable with violence, and I'm not sure that I film violent scenes properly, and it's something I'm reticent to do, and yet violence is sort of in all of my films.

Used properly, cinema is the coolest thing in the world.

The cinema, as literature, as all the plastic arts, do not exist outside of a critical system that allows us to study them.

What interests me about genre is that the public connects immediately with it, it has certain rules, certain codes the audience recognizes. I can use that to create something very big.

In movies, it's so easy to have this 'boom,' to kill, and I think that's inhumane.