Normal love isn't interesting. I assure you that it's incredibly boring.

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.

I would love to make a film about aging that would take place before the war. It would follow the stages in the life of a woman who would not have at her disposal the resources of today like cosmetic surgery, creams and pills.

I never made a film which fully satisfied me.

I want people to go to the movies. I am the man of the spectacle. I'm playing.

I know that atmosphere of the Parisian apartment building, with the twin menaces of the concierge on the ground floor and the landlord upstairs.

I don't rehash the past. It's my baggage. That's all. I accept things as they are.