I don't really know what I want, other than good sequences, whatever that means. What I find is always a matter of chance, judgment, and luck.

One's relationship to time is complicated, and sometimes a day will drag on forever and sometimes it'll be over in a flash. When you look back, "I'm old," after 40 or 60 years, I can't believe I'm as old as I am.

Anybody whose mind is functioning at all can't be content with the way the world works.

Whether you're a newspaper journalist, a lawyer, a doctor. You have to organize your thoughts.

There's the internal rhythm within a sequence, and then there's the rhythm between the sequences, and that's extremely important in constructing the narrative. For example, you don't put two big dramatic scenes right next to each other. But you can use the rhythm of the transition shots; they can often serve a double purpose.

It is always a problem to know what an image means.

I am bad at cultural generalizations but I would venture to say that by a wide margin there is less hypocrisy about sex in France than in America.