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

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

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.

The cinema that interests me departs from realism.

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 that cinema has always progressed through exchanges.

Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful.