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.

My job as a film editor is to construct a dramatic narrative because otherwise it's just a chaotic arrangement of sequences.

If I worked in my apartment, I'd never leave my apartment.

I do not think that my films or films by any other filmmaker represent "THE TRUTH." I do not feel the need to categorize my films or anyone else's.

I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover for myself.

I'm too busy to be nostalgic, which is one of the reasons to keep busy. I'm not a very sentimental person.

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.