Something that I like in movies, and I dislike too, is that they can't be projected well.

Sometimes reality is too complex for oral communication. But legend embodies it in a form which enables it to spread all over the world.

There are two kinds of homeland: one that is given is like a negative, and one that you have to conquer is like the positive.

The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn't.

The average income in France is $1,000 a month, and you can't live decently on that.

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

I know that I am old, because even if I think I'm younger than everyone - but that's true - my way of hoping and continuing is that I am always in a younger position than the other one.