If I ask my actors to bare themselves, to reveal themselves as almost naked, I have to bare myself, expose myself as well. That's what creates excitement.

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.

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

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

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

When you're a kid and your father is an engineer, he goes to the office. I saw my father get up and go to the office in the house and write. But I don't see any similarities.

I think that cinema has always progressed through exchanges.