Happy endings make me puke.

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Some experience is helpful. "The Pianist" was a film that I could make with my eyes closed because I had lived it and everything was still alive in me.

Happy endings make me puke.

My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way.

If I had killed somebody, it wouldn't have had so much appeal to the press, you see? But f-ing, you see, and the young girls. Judges want to f- young girls. Juries want to f- young girls. Everyone wants to f- young girls!

In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it's on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent.