If you have $300,000 to shoot a cigarette on a table, it's an enormous amount of money. Maybe that's why my movies are the way they are. But it's the only way I can make a living.

He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.

The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life.

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Even with a small video we will always be able to do a small movie with friends and to show it to someone. You won't get the Oscar for it. But, after all, why are you writing and why are you filming?

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).

When we talked, I talked about me, you talked about you, when we should have talked about each other.