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.
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.
When someone is punched in the face, you find out what they are made of.
Film is abstract, not definite. It is a dream.
I think that cinema has always progressed through exchanges.