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

In the beginning there was not even talking. In movies, there was no need for that. Because it was more evident if there was no talking. Only in sports does there remain this fervor, which can even become violent. There's this desire to see something big.

Photography could have been invented in color. Colors existed.

I've always considered the French-speaking part of Switzerland as a province of France.

One can be a good critic and a moral observer, but one remains professionally detached as a writer and a filmmaker.

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

Self-portraits have been done in painting, but never in music or literature. It has no meaning, it makes no sense. And in movies I was wondering if it could. And how.