I don't feel comfortable with violence, and I'm not sure that I film violent scenes properly, and it's something I'm reticent to do, and yet violence is sort of in all of my films.

I think that cinema has always progressed through exchanges.

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

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

Do we root for Michael Corleone in the 'Godfather' films? I think so, even if he is a monster.

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.

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