I really believe the form of the film must be in the scenario; cinema is not just added value to the scripting. I believe in it as a totality.

The most heroic thing you can do is tell someone that you love them.

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

Cinema for me only has meaning when it has a relationship with what I see outside on the street.

What interests me about genre is that the public connects immediately with it, it has certain rules, certain codes the audience recognizes. I can use that to create something very big.

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

Cool? Am I cool? I don't know, but I hope my characters are cool, in the sense of iconic. That's my job, at its very essence.

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.

Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful.

Film is abstract, not definite. It is a dream.

I think that cinema has always progressed through exchanges.

I willingly accept Cassandra's fateTo speak the truth, although believed too late.

If we die for them, Harry, I'm going to KILL YOU!

Every human perfection is linked to an error which it threatens to turn into

That which is not worth contemplating in life, is not worth recreating in art.

Then in college, besides economics, I also majored in studio art and got involved in photography and making short films and acting. But I didn't know you could make a living that way.

I seldom try to probe the mystery of my sloth. I have squandered a gigantic fortune of work hours... seems likely that I'll go on squandering till the very end.

Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become, but your views become more extensive.

After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.

Creative" "Dangerously emo.

The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased.