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

The cinema that interests me departs from realism.

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

It's truly gratifying to see my films reach beyond a familiar public, to get a chance to move new audiences. It's nuts. It's extraordinary.

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.

I think that cinema has always progressed through exchanges.

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