Reportage is interesting only when placed in a fictional context, but fiction is interesting only if it is validated by a documentary context.
One can be a good critic and a moral observer, but one remains professionally detached as a writer and a filmmaker.
When I have a low budget I always try to make it a lesson in economy.
In movies, comedy and tragedy are all the same.
I think laughter comes because things are hardly working.
People come to Cannes just to advertise their films, not with a particular message. But the advantage is that if you go to the festival, you get so much press coverage in three days that it advertises the film for the rest of the year.