My feeling, however, is that films that are open are more productive for the audience. The films that, if I'm in a cinema, and I'm watching a movie that answers all the questions that it raises, it's a film that bores me. In the same way, if I'm reading a book that doesn't leave me with questions, moving questions, that I feel confronted with, then for me it's a waste of time. I don't want to read a book that simply confirms what I already know.

Of course, we avoid death. To know something is inevitable is one thing. To accept, to truly feel it... that's different.

As a European filmmaker, you can not make a genre film seriously. You can only make a parody.

I learned my business in the theater and in television, particularly working with the actors. You can learn much more in the theater than directing a movie, because then you have no time when you are shooting a movie to really work with the actors. You have to learn this craft somewhere else.

Film is simply the most complex way you can express yourself

What we're doing for another person is more important than what we're feeling for them.

It’s harder to write a story with just two people in a room than with 50 characters.