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

Self-portraits have been done in painting, but never in music or literature. It has no meaning, it makes no sense. And in movies I was wondering if it could. And how.

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.

Words and action in movies are the spirit or the mind. And these days the body is almost completely forgotten. In the beginning the body - nature - was more part of the action.

Sometime reality is too complex. Stories give it form.

The observer and the universe are part of the same universe. It's what science discovered at the beginning of this century, when they say you can't tell where an atomic particle is. You know where they are, but not their speed; or you know their speed but not their place, because it depends on you. The one who describes is part of the description.

The way we have done pictures has to be disappeared.