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.

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

Used properly, cinema is the coolest thing in the world.

When things aren't working out, we have a tendency to say, 'Go do other things,' but you shouldn't do other things. You need to stay at your desk and continue to try to write. You need to insist on it.

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.