Cinema is a territory. It exists outside of movies. It's a place I live in. It's a way of seeing things, of experiencing life. But making films, that's supposed to be a profession.

I thank Henry James for the scene in the hotel room, that I stole from Portrait Of A Lady… This particular scene is the most beautiful scene ever written.

My films start with images, a few images and a few feelings, and I try to edit them together to see the correspondence between these images and these feelings.

Every film starts with two or three images. Then I try to edit these images.

I feel that cinema is my country. But it's not my business.

When I was 16 I discovered this island called cinema and I thought: 'Oh how wonderful, I'm ready.

It's incredible how much cinema can do. We forget.