Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.

Life has more imagination than we do.

All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to overstate their own importance.

Everyone who works in the domain of fiction is a bit crazy. The problem is to render this craziness interesting.

Is the cinema more important than life?

I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in anything in between.

When I begin a film, I want to make a great film. Halfway through, I just hope to finish the film.