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

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

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

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.

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

What interests me about genre is that the public connects immediately with it, it has certain rules, certain codes the audience recognizes. I can use that to create something very big.

I think 'Scarface' is a great film, but if you have a character like Tony Montana, you don't identify with him at all. I think it's very interesting instead to identify yourself with a character you don't like all the time. You can create a tension between the fiction and the viewer. You force the spectator to wonder about his actions.