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.

I don't think I've succeeded in making any really good films. There are moments, scenes, whole movements that sing. It has all added up to a cinema of sorts, even though I'm still learning my art.

When sex gets problematic, the totalitarianist walks in.

Why all these signs around us that make me doubt language and submerge me in meanings, drowning reality instead of extracting it from the imaginary?

I don't like Paris or being in big cities.

In films, we are trained by the American way of moviemaking to think we must understand and 'get' everything right away. But this is not possible. When you eat a potato, you don't understand each atom of the potato!

I've always considered the French-speaking part of Switzerland as a province of France.