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.

I really believe the form of the film must be in the scenario; cinema is not just added value to the scripting. I believe in it as a totality.

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

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

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

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

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.