Do we root for Michael Corleone in the 'Godfather' films? I think so, even if he is a monster.

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 only have one plan, to give it my all ... I AM AN ENTREPRENEUR.

Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal.

Courage is the first of human qualities, because it is the quality that guarantees all the others. - Winston Churchill

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.

Just kissing? How quickly you dismiss our love.

Fame requires every kind of excess. I mean true fame, a devouring neon, not the sombre renown of waning statesmen or chinless kings.

I want to stay in the habit of 'glancing' at my problems and 'gazing' at my Lord.

There are a few absolute no-brainer rules in my world. Real close to the top of this list is: if an Unseelie prince runs from it, I'm going to run from it, too. [said Dani]

Each has to enter the nest made by the other imperfect bird.

Pieces and parts were always easier to process. The full picture, the entire story, was another thing entirely. But you just never knew. Sometimes, people could surprise you.