Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents.

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.

Truth is in all things, even partly, in error.

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.

To live in society today is like living in one enormous comic-strip.

We are in the twentieth or the twenty-first century, but all the thinking, if you speak to one of those people keen on technology - you see that all their thinking is two centuries old. In cinema, you can show this.

I would never see a good movie for the first time on television.