If it's a good work of adaptation, the book should remain a book and the film should remain a film, and you should not necessarily read the book to see the film. If you do need that, then that means that it's a failure. That is what I think.

A well-trained cat doesn't exist because a cat remains a cat.

Here [in the USA], you have the best laws for freedom of expression. The problem is that expression can be bought by people who don't want you have it. Apparently, true patriotism destroys freedom of expression.

I don't watch many comic-book movies. But I loved 'Sin City.'

If you know a little bit the psychology of human beings, you have to understand that if you say something you should not do, then everybody wants to do it.

You know, they say in France that translation is like a woman: she is either beautiful or faithful.

My mother was the favorite child of her parents. My father was the favorite child of his parents. The result of these two favorite children was me. And I am an only child. So I was convinced that I was the center of the universe.