I think that cinema has always progressed through exchanges.

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

Used properly, cinema is the coolest thing in the world.

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

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.

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