If you look at American studios, the big productions have nothing to do with reality.

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.

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.

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

Cool? Am I cool? I don't know, but I hope my characters are cool, in the sense of iconic. That's my job, at its very essence.