You can't transmit a landscape, happily enough.

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

I don't think I've succeeded in making any really good films. There are moments, scenes, whole movements that sing. It has all added up to a cinema of sorts, even though I'm still learning my art.

Hollywood was invented by hoodlums from central Europe. And today a Hollywood lawyer is not a hoodlum. He's a bureaucrat.

Living, it can be sad too.

When you are out in the land, OK, you have the land but you are alone with it. And sometimes it is too much.

What I like in pictures whether by an old director or a young director is when I have the feeling he or she is really using the capacity of film.