American pictures usually have no subject, only a story. A pretty woman is not a subject. Julia Roberts doing this and that is not a subject.

Photography is truth...and cinema is truth 24 times a second.

Through most of my career I've made a decent living making movies no one wants to see.

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.

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.

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

If you want to make a documentary you should automatically go to the fiction, and if you want to nourish your fiction you have to come back to reality.