In any case, the idea of giving "all" of reality is overly simple and absurd.

I've always played down the drama in my films. In my main scenes, there's never an opportunity for an actor to let go of everything he's got inside. I always try to tone down the acting, because my stories demand it, to the point where I might change a script so that an actor has no opportunity to come out well.

My work is like digging, it's archaeological research among the arid materials of our times. That's how I understand my first films, and that's what I'm still doing...

I'm more or less skeptical about marriage, because of family ties, relations between children and parents - it's all so depressing.

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

I'll go on making films until I make one that pleases me from the first to the last frame. Then I'll quit.