A man doesn't cry. In my life, I've never cried. I cannot do it. I am a man. How will I cry?

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

Art gives to you a new conception of reality, opens your mind, opens your heart, opens your desire of action.

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.

I was very scared when I saw it, because Dune was for me very important in my life. I was very sad I could not do it. When I saw that David Lynch would do it, I was very scared, because I admire him as a movie-maker, and I thought he would do well. But when I see the picture, I realize he never understood this picture. It's not a David Lynch picture. It's the producer who made that picture, no? Who made this horror. For David Lynch, it was a job. A commercial job. It never was that for me.

You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with different space and different time.

One does not go to the theater to escape from himself, but to reestablish contact with the mystery that we all are.