I look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

There are a thousand ways of playing a good classic. If it were effective, I would play Hamlet on a trapeze.

I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.

Computers combine things to make new knowledge at such high speed that we cannot absorb it.

Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.

If you've noticed that I don't use long takes, it's not because I don't like them, but because no one gives me the necessary means to treat myself to them. It's more economical to make one image, then this image and then that image, and try to control them later, in the editing studio.