Our duty as storytellers is to bring people to the station. There each person will choose his or her own train...But we must at least take them to the station...to a point of departure.

No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.

All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

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.

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.

Experience is what you get while looking for something else.

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