The last film is always the most important.

You have to strike hard from the beginning and create a depressurizing zone between the viewer's own life and the one onscreen. The creators of James Bond got it right: the attention-grabbing scene of each Bond movie is the very first one, before the opening credits.

The constant in my films is love stories. I consider love the chief business of humanity.

Film-making is like spermatozoa: only one in a million makes it.

I sometimes follow people who attract my curiosity in the street for five, ten minutes.

Each time I hit a low point I learn the most. Failure is the best university.

It's funny: half my films were flops, half did well. It would be terrible if I'd had only success.