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

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

I was the little French boy who grew up hearing people talk of De Gaulle and the Resistance. France against the Nazis! Then when that boy grew up, he began to uncover things. We began to legitimately ask the question, 'What exactly did our parents do during the Occupation?' We discovered it was not the story they were telling us.

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

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.

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