If I have a goal, then it is to escape from this literalism. I'll never achieve it; in the same way that I'll never manage to describe what really dwells within my character, although I keep on trying.

I really don't know anything about music, and it's no great experience for me. But I do think that music has a purifying element.

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

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

The realm of superstitions, fortune-telling, presentiments, intuition, dreams, all this is the inner life of a human being, and all this is the hardest thing to film.

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

There are mysteries, secret zones in each individual.