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

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

You make films to give people something, to transport them somewhere else, and it doesn't matter if you transport them to a world of intuition or a world of intellect...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... I've been trying to get there from the beginning. I'm somebody who doesn't know, somebody who's searching.

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

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.

I have one good characteristic: I'm a pessimist, so I always imagine the worst - always. To me, the future is a black hole.

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