This new world which is being born is cynical and amnesiac. And it has eliminated perspective.

The trouble with Hollywood is that it has poisoned us. If you see a poster of a movie it is mainly the picture of a woman and a man. Always a love story. Yes. But it shouldn't be that way. It should be another (way).

I don't know if I am free because I am happy or happy because I am free.

Through most of my career I've made a decent living making movies no one wants to see.

Now at my age I understand how sad it must have been for some directors or actors at the time the talkies began. Because, really, a whole continent disappeared.

Hollywood was invented by hoodlums from central Europe. And today a Hollywood lawyer is not a hoodlum. He's a bureaucrat.

If you want to make a documentary you should automatically go to the fiction, and if you want to nourish your fiction you have to come back to reality.