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

When you're a kid and your father is an engineer, he goes to the office. I saw my father get up and go to the office in the house and write. But I don't see any similarities.

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

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

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.

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

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.