Film students should stay as far away from film schools and film teachers as possible. The only school for the cinema is the cinema.

The movies I like are always movies where cinema is reinvented like if it was the beginning of cinema.

What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution. I was in Italy, but completely in love with the nouvelle vague movement, and directors like Godard, Truffaut, Demy. 'The Dreamers' was a total homage to cinema and that love for it.

After many, many years, I fell out of love with politics. It's not something I like but it's the truth.

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

This is something that I dream about: to live films, to arrive at the point at which one can live for films, can think cinematographically, eat cinematographically, sleep cinematographically, as a poet, a painter, lives, eats, sleeps painting.

I think that I used to love Hollywood movies. I remember great phases and moments. But, unfortunately, now is not the moment.