When you make a movie outside the system and it's successful critically or a moderate financial success, you usually have to go back into the system and make a big hit

And I always had this idea for making a movie about a femme fatale, because I like these characters. They're a lot of fun, they're sexy, they're manipulative, they're dangerous.

Everybody doesn't have to have a daughter who's a goodie-two-shoes.

When you make a movie outside the system and it's successful critically or a moderate financial success, you usually have to go back into the system and make a big hit

And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations

Godard is incredibly brilliant, the things he says. Apparently here in France, the most interesting thing when a new film of his is going to come out are his press conferences, because he's so brilliant

You've got to remind yourself all the time that you're being measured against the fashions of the day, and if your work truly has any kind of staying power, well, people will be talking about it in 20, 30 years.