I don't feel comfortable with violence, and I'm not sure that I film violent scenes properly, and it's something I'm reticent to do, and yet violence is sort of in all of my films.

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

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

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

The cinema that interests me departs from realism.

I really believe the form of the film must be in the scenario; cinema is not just added value to the scripting. I believe in it as a totality.

When things aren't working out, screenwriters 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.