The best films are because of nobody but the director.

Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve as revenge, to show that I could.

I don't know anyone who is not using drugs for the reason that they're illegal.

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.

To the audience it doesn't really matter how much the director struggled with an actor. It's the result that counts.

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