If you go with the principle, you should go with the principle. If I really saw the subject very differently than ten years ago, I would have done a different movie.

It's a disease of critics that once they've labeled someone, it's very hard to change their perspective. It's laziness.

At its best, film should be like a ski jump. It should give the viewer the option of taking flight, while the act of jumping is left up to him.

Personally, I can't stand violence. In any standard American mainstream movie, there's 20 times more violence than in any one of my films, so I don't know why those directors aren't asked why they're such specialists for violence.

To decide to film a movie again shot by shot, you must be masochistic to a certain degree because it is a much greater challenge.

My father and I had a good relationship, it was very relaxed. He had a lot of humour. He looked a little bit like me, although he had no beard. He had the appearance of a very elegant British-looking man.

It's much harder to write a script that involves two people in a single location than 20 people in 30 different locations.