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

Sometime reality is too complex. Stories give it form.

In Europe, the houses and the apartments are getting smaller. So there is no need to increase the screen because the apartment is becoming smaller.

The fact is that, unless you are very good, most first movies are too long, and you lose your rhythm and your audience over two or three hours.

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

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.

One can be a good critic and a moral observer, but one remains professionally detached as a writer and a filmmaker.