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.

Do we root for Michael Corleone in the 'Godfather' films? I think so, even if he is a monster.

When someone is punched in the face, you find out what they are made of.

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

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

Cool? Am I cool? I don't know, but I hope my characters are cool, in the sense of iconic. That's my job, at its very essence.

I think 'Scarface' is a great film, but if you have a character like Tony Montana, you don't identify with him at all. I think it's very interesting instead to identify yourself with a character you don't like all the time. You can create a tension between the fiction and the viewer. You force the spectator to wonder about his actions.