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.

All our thinking constitutes the new world, but all our thoughts are older and older.

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.

When sex gets problematic, the totalitarianist walks in.

I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.

I am a painter with letters. I want to restore everything, mix everything up and say everything.

You have to continue and discover the grammar of things, of what we can see.