Why must one talk? Often one shouldn't talk, but live in silence. The more one talks, the less the words mean. (Nana Kleinfrankenheim, Vivre Sa Vie)

If you have $300,000 to shoot a cigarette on a table, it's an enormous amount of money. Maybe that's why my movies are the way they are. But it's the only way I can make a living.

Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.

The projector will soon disappear. The camera, not really. OK, it depends... it depends on change.

When Yeats said the center cannot hold, he was talking for himself, but it was true for the rest of us as well.

Europe has memories, America has t-shirts.

My aesthetic is that of the sniper on the roof.