When you work on a character, you form in your mind an image of what he ought to look like. Then you go and find one who resembles him.

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

I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.

Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.

When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.

I can't give any absolute definition of what love is, or even whether it ought to exist.

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.