I come from a tradition of screenwriting -- with a co-writer -- where everything is challenged, where you have to defend every idea, ... I am a robber of ideas, but for there to be ideas, you have to have discussion. If everyone takes my word for the truth, you can't do that.

It wouldn't be unthinkable that he would chase her out with a baseball bat,

The Beat That My Heart Skipped,

He was more interested in having a discussion on Proust than on Welles,

I think 'Scarface' is a great film, but if you have a character like Tony Montana, you don't identify with him at all. I think it's very interesting instead to identify yourself with a character you don't like all the time. You can create a tension between the fiction and the viewer. You force the spectator to wonder about his actions.

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