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.

I think that cinema has always progressed through exchanges.

In movies, it's so easy to have this 'boom,' to kill, and I think that's inhumane.

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.

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

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.