Peellaert's comic strips were the literature of intelligence, imagination and romanticism.

Reality! But what does this word mean? Each has his own reality. I draw upon my personal reality upon the dark side of myself, my unconscious.

The greatest danger for artists is total freedom.

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

I never make moral judgments; I'm not qualified to do so. I am not a censor, a priest, or a politician.

I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images

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.