So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.

The more real things get, the more like myths they become.

I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.

Women think in Sirk's films. Something which has never struck me with other directors. None of them. Usually women are always reacting, doing what women are supposed to do, but in Sirk they think. It's something that has to be seen.

I detest the idea that love between two persons can lead to salvation. All my life I have fought against this oppressive type of relationship. Instead, I believe in searching for a kind of love that somehow involves all of humanity.

So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.

Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a long and ordinary life.