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.

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.

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 hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.

Not every breakup hurts, not every love story sucks. It's the love that comes with a warning that it will hurt you and suck your blood out of you.

Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self- denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Moses and the crooked snake... that turned into a stuck, that was actually a disintegrator pistol.

There are two types of girls: those that can make cheap clothes look expensive and those that make designer clothes look cheap.

Failure is a resource that can be managed.

We are sure to get the better of fortune if we do but grapple with her.

Suddenly I've had enough of all this. I've had enough of being made to feel insecure and paranoid and wondering what's going on

The crisis of the Western world exists to the degree in which it is indifferent to God.