Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.

I have no advice for anyone on how to live.

This [the earthquake] was a very big influence on me, and the issue of life and death from then on does recur in my films.

Good cinema is what we can believe and bad cinema is what we can't believe. What you see and believe in is very much what I'm interested in.

Whether you consider me a master filmmaker or not, I do it with my intuition and my vision, my experience as a storyteller.

It's not so much a question of whether we've shot it through 35mm or digital video; what is important is whether the audience accepts it as real.

I thought that choosing a non-professional was a condition for me, because it would allow Juliette to have a less-professional way of acting. It would challenge her performance as a professional actress.