The greatest danger for artists is total freedom.

Life is a combination of magic and pasta.

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.

It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman.

You see me in my most virile moment when you see me doing what I do. When I am directing, a special energy comes upon me. ... It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive. It is like having sex.

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

The picture is in your head, in your imagination, everything.