For me optimism is two lovers walking into the sunset arm in arm. Or maybe into the sunrise - whatever appeals to you.

You have to want to make a film for other reasons - to say something, to tell a story, to show somebody's fate - but you can't want to make a film simply for the sake of it.

In ten phrases, the ten commandments express the essential of life. And these three words--liberty, equality, and fraternity--do just as much. Millions of people have died for those ideals.

Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.

I have no problem being with people of different nationalities.

Of course I'd like to get beyond the concrete. But it's really difficult. Very difficult.

Interior liberty is universal.