Something that I tell myself every morning when I wake up is like: "Think it over, take the time to think it over." I don't like spontaneity, there you go. I'm wary of it.

The most heroic thing you can do is tell someone that you love them.

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.

Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful.

Used properly, cinema is the coolest thing in the world.

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.

For me, there was no great myth around the movies when I was a young child. My father was very simple about the whole thing. He did not consider cinema an art. Cinema was entertainment. Literature and music were art.