Reportage is interesting only when placed in a fictional context, but fiction is interesting only if it is validated by a documentary context.

The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life.

It makes me laugh when you bring two things together which have nothing to do with one another.

I think laughter comes because things are hardly working.

Why all these signs around us that make me doubt language and submerge me in meanings, drowning reality instead of extracting it from the imaginary?

I'm very interested in tennis, but when I try to tell younger players about [Bill] Tilden, they're not interested.

The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires.