I wanted to make a real love story with a bad ending, because a love story that ends good is the life of everyone - you and I, for example. I always say to people, You know, if Romeo and Juliet got married, nobody would care about them. Imagine Romeo and Juliet, six kids yelling, mama, mama, papa, papa.

Revolutions just spread blood. Evolution - this is something that changes in the long term.

Drawing is the first language of the human being before writing. It's a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not reality itself.

It's cinematographic to smoke. Imagine Lauren Bacall without a cigarette.

I think that all stories - if you make movies about zombies and aliens - it has always to do with your personal story. If not directly, it is about your fears, your obsessions, things like that.

You know, they say in France that translation is like a woman: she is either beautiful or faithful.

A Muslim fanatic and a Christian fanatic, a Jewish fanatic, a secular fanatic, an atheist fanatic, a communist fanatic - all of them are the same. The thinking that, 'If you don't think like me, that if you are not with me, then you are against me;' this is something to condemn.