If a story doesn't give you a hard-on in the first couple of scenes, throw it in the goddamned garbage.

Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where your eye is going. This style thing, for me it's all fitted to the action, to the script, to the characters.

Extending the language of film sometimes starts with just trying to show one true thing.

Life is in color, but black and white is more realistic.

Film is a battleground. Love, hate, violence, action, death...In a word, emotion.

Ninety-five per cent of films are born of frustration, of self despair, of ambition for survival, for money, for fattening bank accounts. Five per cent, maybe less, are made because a man has an idea, an idea which he must express.

When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is.