In movies, comedy and tragedy are all the same.

On TV you can't show landscapes. You just can't. Even a postcard is better.

I'm Franco-Swiss. I've always been shuttling between these two worlds, never firmly planted in either one.

There are no more simple images... The world is too much for an image. You need several of them, a chain of images.

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.

Americans have no past, so they buy the pasts of others.

TV has nothing to do with painting. It's just transmission.