I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.

For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.

A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn't want to go to the movies to watch a film about a woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing.

Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never be banal. It must be dramatic and human. What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out?

Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.

I'm a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.

The picture's over. Now I have to go and put it on film.