I think that cinema has always progressed through exchanges.

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

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

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.

It's truly gratifying to see my films reach beyond a familiar public, to get a chance to move new audiences. It's nuts. It's extraordinary.

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.

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