We all steal, but if we're smart we steal from great directors. Then, we can call it influence.

In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something.

I wanted to describe the world at the same time, through image, express what I felt. It was the time of the great documentary filmmakers: Richard Leacock, Joris Ivens. Today, television has put an end to this type of filmmaking.

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.

We all steal, but if we're smart we steal from great directors. Then, we can call it influence.

We understand the concept of equality, that we all want to be equal. But I think this is absolutely not true. I don't think anybody really wants to be equal. Everybody wants to be more equal.

I believe the life of every person is worthy of scrutiny, containing its own secrets and dramas.