I'm not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.

I have respect for literature. If he found the words, if she found the words - this is a book!

I don't believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue ... It seems to me that the more motivated I am by what I film, the more objectively I film.

I was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo - and I kept it all my life!

We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more. Even Vagabond - it was a fiction but it was really a documentary. I mean, it has the texture of documentary. Even if I made up every line, it has the texture of being true.

You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles.

It's a way of living, cinema. And I see my family, I do this and that, I travel. It's a long process to let it happen.