As I don't consider myself exceptional, but simply a storyteller, each of my stories is really a period of my life. Deep down I feel that criticism of my work-which is the most sincere and authentic vision of myself-is unsuitable and immodest, whether it is favorable or unfavorable.

I spent my life trying to cure myself of my education.

Marriage, if it is to survive, must be treated as the beginning, not as the happy ending.

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

What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one... It’s this in-between that I’m calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one - which is really the realm of the artist.

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.

Every time I start a picture ... I feel the same fear, the same self-doubts . . . and I have only one source on which I can draw, because it comes from within me.