I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.

Continuity is boring.

I have a very, very secret drive to become a dilettante, without the pejorative overtones or the obligation to produce myself. There's so much to examine, so much to contemplate. I have enormous enthusiasm when I start a new project but then there's the meetings and the counter-meetings, the rehearsals, the struggles. You have to keep pushing and pushing and pushing to get your dreams realised.

We all live to a formula. Maybe the secret lies in keeping that formula secret.

There's more religion in my little finger than there is in the pope. But no, I don't believe in God. I am an athiest. A Darwinian evolutionist.

I have transmitted genetic material, all I have to do between my daughters' birth and my death is to decorate my life.

I do feel for me that cinema has somehow ceased to be a spectator sport. I get tremendous excitement out of making it rather than watching it.