When you're a kid and your father is an engineer, he goes to the office. I saw my father get up and go to the office in the house and write. But I don't see any similarities.

If you look at American studios, the big productions have nothing to do with reality.

Cinema for me only has meaning when it has a relationship with what I see outside on the street.

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.

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

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

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