Brian De Palma (director): “When you're making a movie about gangsters, you shouldn't romanticize them.
There should be something about them that makes your skin crawl. They're murderers. You have to show the
reason they are who they are, and why they do what they do. Scarface is about power, and the modern aphro-
disiac of power is cocaine. I was trying to show what this power means in its most grandiose, absurd sense.

Movies have to be 27 times bigger than real lite simply to communicate what the reality of the situation really is."

SCARFACE (1983) - PATRICIA NORRIS, COSTUME DESIGNER