I felt attacked because people rejected me. They didn't say "we can give you money to do something else if you want," they just said "no, this movie cannot be done" and I said "okay, so I'll do it!"

In French you say, "I'm alone against the world" and that means "I hate everybody and everybody's against me."

What I don't like in movies dealing with the illustration of altered states of consciousness is that usually you see the guy from the outside.

In England they need a king, in Spain they need a king, in France there is no more king. But they consider the president as if he was a king.

I feel very protected when I see a movie. That's why I like making violent movies or radical movies.

If you sue somebody it takes two years, three years, and your anger just gets lost in between. And even if you win or lose the trial, it takes such a long time. If you want to really take a personal revenge, you'd better do it by yourself and at the right time.

If I had to go through a tunnel ten years without making any movies like Bunuel, I don't mind, as long as I did one good movie.