I think that cinema has always progressed through exchanges.

I think that cinema has always progressed through exchanges.

When things aren't working out, screenwriters have a tendency to say, "Go do other things," but you shouldn't do other things. You need to stay at your desk and continue to try to write. You need to insist on it.

The cinema that interests me departs from realism.

For me, there was no great myth around the movies when I was a young child. My father was very simple about the whole thing. He did not consider cinema an art. Cinema was entertainment. Literature and music were art.

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 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.