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.

Something that I tell myself every morning when I wake up is like: "Think it over, take the time to think it over." I don't like spontaneity, there you go. I'm wary of it.

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

Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful.

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

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

The cinema that interests me departs from realism.