A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

Cinema returns us to anima, religion of matter, which gives each thing its special divinity and sees gods in all things and beings. Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.

Time to live, time to lie, time to laugh, and time to die. Take it easy baby. Take it as it comes.

I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.

Take an Indian home to lunch.

I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone stops, points up and gasps "Oh look at that!" Then - whoosh, and I'm gone... and they'll never see anything like it ever again... and they won't be able to forget me - ever.

There are images I need to complete my own reality.