A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.

"Away, away," says hate. "Closer, closer," says love.

There are no more simple images... The world is too much for an image. You need several of them, a chain of images.

I have no desire to vote for French politicians, and I'm not entitled to vote in Switzerland.

If we think today the way TV is ordering us to think, we think of Einstein as someone modern. Stravinsky is modern music, but it came at the time of Birth of a Nation, which is an old movie.

The fact is that, unless you are very good, most first movies are too long, and you lose your rhythm and your audience over two or three hours.

I am nowhere. You can call me the man in the middle.