(Landscapes) are too close to painting. And TV has nothing to do with painting. It's just transmission. And you can't transmit a landscape, happily enough.

The silent film, it was cut at the age of thirty.

I'm satisfied to have an ordinary success and an ordinary life and an ordinary income. Later, I don't know.

Reportage is interesting only when placed in a fictional context, but fiction is interesting only if it is validated by a documentary context.

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

I like the idea of making films about ostensibly absolutely nothing. I like the irrelevant, the tangential, the sidebar excursion to nowhere that suddenly becomes revelatory. That's what all my movies are about. That and the idea that we're in possession of certainty, truth, infallible knowledge, when actually we're just a bunch of apes running around. My films are about people who think they're connected to something, although they're really not.

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