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

The so-called "remake" is simply a commercial formulation of a much deeper exchange which accounts for the way cinema is what it is.

For me, there was no great myth around the movies when I was a young child. My father was very simple about the whole thing. He did not consider cinema an art. Cinema was entertainment. Literature and music were art.

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

It's truly gratifying to see my films reach beyond a familiar public, to get a chance to move new audiences. It's nuts. It's extraordinary.

Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful.

An archetypal gangster is always at a remove. We can't get into his mindset.