I'm Franco-Swiss. I've always been shuttling between these two worlds, never firmly planted in either one.

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.

Film is truth 24 times a second, and every cut is a lie.

There is no light in electronincs. There is lightening. But lightening is not real light.

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

Poetry is a game of loser-take-all.

There are two kinds of homeland: one that is given is like a negative, and one that you have to conquer is like the positive.