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

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.

(When asked what a director does) I help.

That's the greatest sin a director can commit; to make a film simply because he wants to make a film.

Someone knocks at the door of an apartment to borrow salt or sugar, people run into each other in the elevator, and in this way become inscribed in the spectator's memory.

In real life, there are names that surprise us because they don't seem to suit the person at all.

Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking?