If you mention any ideological thing about shooting Last Tango in Paris, I was thinking I was doing a political film.

Pornography is not in the hands of the child who discovers his sexuality by masturbating, but in the heart of the adult who slaps him.

A dolly move is a moral commitment.

I was writing poems when I was young, you know, because my father was a poet, so it was absolutely normal to follow my father.

You live day by day. You can't build your life.

I don't film messages. I let the post office take care of those.

I am in love with the idea of doing a movie in 3D. I think 3D would be great for the story I want to do, in a realistic, normal story, using 3D on the emotions in a kind of intimate story.