Once we actually have the production script after many rewrites, at that point is when I start to decide what the look and colors will be. I work like a painter, even though I'm working in three dimensions. I'm working with chairs. I'm working with walls. But even things like the floor or the walls that people might think are not important, they actually do influence the visual look of the film. These are also things that I have to think about.

The 1980s really ended for me in 1992 with the film Kika.

I think that there is always a part of utopia in any romantic relationship.

I used this line to demonstrate how important colors are in movies: It's not a caprice.

I don't want the director to have to make any decisions except to say "action" and "cut."

Yes, women are stronger than us. They face more directly the problems that confront them, and for that reason they are much more spectacular to talk about. I don't know why I am more interested in women, because I don't go to any psychiatrists, and I don't want to know why.

Anything that is not autobiography is plagiarism.