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.

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.

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.

If you are constantly seeking then sooner or later, you will meet ‘your opportunity

He was evidently the sort of person who posed questions that were traps for you to fall into.

No borders, just horizons - only freedom.

Sulking about your mistakes only leads to future ones.

Death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble nor shameful - and hence neither good nor bad.

Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.

Equality of opportunity is the essence of social justice.

The British - who rarely start a fight, but always know how to finish it - have nothing to be ashamed of.

Nobody became an actor because he had a good childhood.

The common growth of Mother Earth Suffices me,-her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears.