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

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.

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.

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

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.