I ask of cinema what most North Americans ask of psychedelic drugs.

When the bull's-eye becomes as big in your mind as an elephant, you are sure to hit it.

I have an ambition to live 300 years. I will not live 300 years. Maybe I will live one year more. But I have the ambition. Why you will not have ambition? Why? Have the greatest ambition possible. You want to be immortal? Fight to be immortal. Do it. You want to make the most fantastic art or movie? Try. If you fail, is not important. We need to try.

For a true artist, difficulties become opportunities and clouds become solid present.

I don't live in France; I live in myself.

The imagination wants to construct the new worlds, no? Creativity is a solution. If I ask you, "What is your goal in life? How many years do you have to live before to die? How many years do you have? And what you will do with these years you have?" You have pressure there. "How you will realize a good life? How? Tell me!" Then, you start to open your mind.

People say I am mad. I am not mad. I am trying to heal my soul.