Marriage is a tyranny, a mortification of man's natural instincts. Man needs a multiplicity of relationships.

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

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.

If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something.

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.

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

Never trust a woman who doesn’t like to eat. She is probably lousy in bed.