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

Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.

I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.

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

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

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.

A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.