The cinema, as literature, as all the plastic arts, do not exist outside of a critical system that allows us to study them.

It's truly gratifying to see my films reach beyond a familiar public, to get a chance to move new audiences. It's nuts. It's extraordinary.

Film is abstract, not definite. It is a dream.

Cinema for me only has meaning when it has a relationship with what I see outside on the street.

When you're a kid and your father is an engineer, he goes to the office. I saw my father get up and go to the office in the house and write. But I don't see any similarities.

When things aren't working out, we have a tendency to say, 'Go do other things,' but you shouldn't do other things. You need to stay at your desk and continue to try to write. You need to insist on it.

If you look at American studios, the big productions have nothing to do with reality.