The mark which has dominated all my work is this longing for life, this sense of exclusion, which doesn't lessen but augments this love of life.

When the soul hears no other calls than those of the sweet chaos of daily good and evil.

And dead an epoch of our existence, which in a world destined to humiliate us was moral light and resistance.

If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief.

When I make a film I'm always in reality among the trees, and among the people like yourselves. There's no symbolic or conventional filter between me and reality as there is in literature. The cinema is an explosion of my love for reality.

I think to scandalize is a right, to be scandalized is a pleasure, and those who refuse to be scandalized are moralists.

It has been said that I have three heroes: Christ, Marx and Freud. This is reducing everything to formulae. In truth, my only hero is Reality. If I have chosen to be a filmmaker as well as a writer it is because, rather than expressing reality through those symbols that are words, I have preferred the cinema as a means of expression - to express reality through reality.