The public buys "art" - but the word is drained of its meaning.

I'm not rich and maybe I'll never be rich. Money is useful - yes - but I don't worship it.

Violence is not the only means of persuasion.

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.

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.

A director is a man, therefore he has ideas; he is also an artist, therefore he has imagination. Whether they are good or bad, it seems to me that I have an abundance of stories to tell. And the things I see, the things that happen to me, continually renew the supply.

I never feel empty. I travel a lot and I think about other films.