Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.

Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.

I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provided they come close together.

Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.

Freedom, especially a woman's freedom, is a conquest to be made, not a gift to be received. It isn't granted. It must be taken.

No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.