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

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

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

Cinema for me only has meaning when it has a relationship with what I see outside on the street.

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

When someone is punched in the face, you find out what they are made of.

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.