When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.

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

There's no such thing as an anti-war film.

Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste.

At first, I wasn't sure whether I'd be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be something like that.

The most beautiful thing I have ever seen in a movie theatre is to go down to the front and turn around, and look at all the uplifted faces, the light from the screen reflected upon them.

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.