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

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

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.

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

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.