In movies, it's so easy to have this 'boom,' to kill, and I think that's inhumane.
The most heroic thing you can do is tell someone that you love them.
Film is abstract, not definite. It is a dream.
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.
An archetypal gangster is always at a remove. We can't get into his mindset.
For me, there was no great myth around the movies when I was a young child. My father was very simple about the whole thing. He did not consider cinema an art. Cinema was entertainment. Literature and music were art.