Used properly, cinema is the coolest thing in the world.
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.
Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful.
An archetypal gangster is always at a remove. We can't get into his mindset.
Film is abstract, not definite. It is a dream.
If you look at American studios, the big productions have nothing to do with reality.