No matter what happens, always Keep your childhood innocence. It's the most important thing.

There is no such thing as a good paparazzo. A good paparazzo, that's a paparazzo who has had his camera broken. In fact, they are bandits, thieves of photography. (Statement after photographs were published showing Jackie Onassis sunbathing nude.)

As a writer and director, I want to know what is behind the good manners and soft voice. Who is inside the silhouette?

The only place where you can be a dictator and still be loved is on the movie set

Regrets are a waste of time. They're the past crippling you in the present.

I’m just a storyteller, and the cinema happens to be my medium. I like it because it recreates life in movement, enlarges it, enhances it, distills it. For me, it’s far closer to the miraculous creation of life than, say, a painting or music or even literature. It’s not just an art form; it’s actually a new form of life, with its own rhythms, cadences, perspectives and transparencies. It’s my way of telling a story.

Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.