I like both slapstick and contradiction. Like philosophers.

Movies will continue one way or another. Maybe on video. Even on video games. You have to look at it, if you have children, or if you are linked to children, because it's new for them. This has not disappeared; the look of a child who is discovering the world, whatever it is.

My aesthetic is that of the sniper on the roof.

If we think today the way TV is ordering us to think, we think of Einstein as someone modern. Stravinsky is modern music, but it came at the time of Birth of a Nation, which is an old movie.

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

Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man.

"Away, away," says hate. "Closer, closer," says love.