Sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late.

I remember being young in the 1960s. We had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.

I don't see my movies. I think it's healthier and safer to keep a bit of distance. I'm afraid to be disappointed.

A dolly move is a moral commitment.

I like that 3D is based on the fact that you look with two eyes, so two cameras imitate that.

You know, in ten years you're gonna be playing soccer with your tits, what do you think of that?

I was seduced by the nouvelle vague, because it was really reinventing everything. And the Italian cinema that one would see in the theaters in the late '50s, early '60s was Italian comedy, Italian style, which, to me, was like the end of neo-realism. I think cinema all over the world was influenced by it, which was Italy finding its freedom at the end of fascism, the end of the Nazi invasion. It was a kind of incredible energy. Then, late '50s, early '60s, the neo-realism lost its great energy and became comedy.