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.

Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings is of prime importance.

I've made films about the middle classes because I know them best. Everyone talks about what he knows best.

Hollywood doesn't believe in the death penalty for anyone except people who get cable TV without paying for it. Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.

Reality has a quality of freedom about it that is hard to explain.

If an actor tries to understand too much, he will act in an intellectual and unnatural manner.

A man who renounces something is also a man who believes in something.