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.

When the film stock disappears, the matter - because movies are matter - (disappears). The laws of this have been established by Newton, Einstein, and others: there is a correspondence between light and matter, and light is matter. And energy.

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

TV has nothing to do with painting. It's just transmission.

Even with painting, even abstract paintings, you need the incoming of, light on the canvas.

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

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.