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.

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

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

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

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

When things aren't working out, screenwriters 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.

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.