Whenever I get happy, I always have a terrible feeling.

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

It's very important to set your place in a concrete environment. I think Chekhov said that the important thing when you have a play or any kind of novel is to set the roots in a concrete place.

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

Happy endings make me puke.

I simply think there's life after movies. I have to adhere to this philosophy, and therefore I like other things, and I have other passions. None are as big as movie-making, but they exist.

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