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.

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

When things aren't working out, we 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 most heroic thing you can do is tell someone that you love them.

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

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.

I think that cinema has always progressed through exchanges.