I live in cinema. I feel I've lived here forever.

I call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure - stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little.

You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing. But in a way we all have a Mona. We all have inside ourselves a woman who walks alone on the road. In all women there is something in revolt that is not expressed.

I'm interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being different, or they wish to be different, or they are different because society pushed them away.

You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.

People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don't believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.

Some people meet each other again only when I'm there!