A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own.

You cannot penetrate events with reportage.

Fitzgerald said a very interesting thing in his diary; that human life proceeds from the good to the less good - that is, it's always worse as you go on. That's true.

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

My films have always had an element of immediate autobiography, in that I shoot any particular scene according to the mood I'm in that day, according to the little daily experiences I've had and am having - but I don't tell what has happened to me. I would like to do something more strictly autobiographical, but perhaps I never will, because it isn't interesting enough.

Women are a finer filter of reality. They can sniff things.

A film you can explain in words is not a real film.