Using non-actors has its own rules and really requires that you allow them to do their own thing.

I think life is so difficult to catch, it's so furtive, that a copy, a film, can in no way catch it and represent it.

I think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films.

When you take a tree that is rooted in the ground, and transfer it from one place to another, the tree will no longer bear fruit. And if it does, the fruit will not be as good as it was in its original place. This is a rule of nature. I think if I had left my country, I would be the same as the tree.

Of the hundreds of points to enter and exit that are offered to me, I have to choose the one that I feel is the least wrong, the least fake. It is fake, it is a moment that I choose to erupt the story, but I make it as smooth as I can. What enables me to do it is the skill of filmmaking.

I prefer the films that put their audience to sleep in the theater. Some films have made me doze off in the theater, but the same films have made me stay up at night, wake up thinking about them in the morning, and keep on thinking about them for weeks.

It's true that the best way of knowing yourself is to put yourself into different situations.