A film that can be described in words is not really a film.

Before each new setup, I chase everyone off the set in order to be alone and look through the camera. In that moment, the film seems quite easy. But then the others come in and everything becomes difficult.

Actors are always a little high at work. Acting is their drug. So when you put the brakes on, they're naturally a little disappointed.

After you've learned two or three basic rules of cinema grammar, you can do what you like - including breaking those rules.

Violence is not the only means of persuasion.

The moment always comes when, having collected one's ideas, certain images, an intuition of a certain kind of development- whether psychological or material- one must pass on to the actual realization.

I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.