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.

We once believed we were auteurs but we weren't. We had no idea, really. Film is over. It's sad nobody is really exploring it. But what to do? And anyway, with mobile phones and everything, everyone is now an auteur.

There is no such thing as intellectual property.

Film is truth 24 times a second, and every cut is a lie.

Once we know the number one, we believe that we know the number two, because one plus one equals two. We forget that first we must know the meaning of plus.

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

Europe has memories, America has t-shirts.