Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of failure with a death in it. But there is more lost paradise in them than defeat.

I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

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

The basic and essential human is the woman.

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.

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.