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.

Something that I tell myself every morning when I wake up is like: "Think it over, take the time to think it over." I don't like spontaneity, there you go. I'm wary of it.

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

The most heroic thing you can do is tell someone that you love them.

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

Film is abstract, not definite. It is a dream.

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