Even with painting, even abstract paintings, you need the incoming of, light on the canvas.

To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body - both go together, they can't be separated.

People come to Cannes just to advertise their films, not with a particular message. But the advantage is that if you go to the festival, you get so much press coverage in three days that it advertises the film for the rest of the year.

You can be with other people, which is ideal, or you can be alone.

Americans have no past, so they buy the pasts of others.

I am still associated with a heroic period in French cinema, and my name remains linked to this period.

Film begins with DW Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami.