All you need to make a film is a girl and a gun

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.

I learned from Rossellini that you are rich even if you have a little money.

If you have made three or four films, my feeling is, he is older than me because I am still making my first movie. That helps me.

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.

The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn't.

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