I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.

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

That love is a conflict seems to me obvious and natural. There isn't a single worthwhile work in world literature based on love that is only about the conquest of happiness, the effort to arrive at what we call love. It's the struggle that has always interested those who produce works of art - literature, cinema or poetry.

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

Innovation comes spontaneously. I don't know if I've done anything new. If I have, it's just because I had begun to feel for some time that I couldn't stand certain films, certain modes, certain ways of telling a story, certain tricks of plot development, all of it predictable and useless.

I don't know whether I am ever bored. I never look at myself.

People are always misquoting me.