The function of the flashback is Freudian...You have to let them wander like the imagination or like a dream.

I work with intuition. With interpreters. I have my own method. I know exactly what I want from actors. Sometimes, I even recite the role to the actor if it's not clear.

I think politics should be expressed in this way and not in other ways. And not just politics - sentiments, even certain states of being.

Probably the greatest writer of westerns himself was Homer. His character were never all good or all bad. They're half and half, these characters, as all human beings are.

It's very easy with the camera to show the positive side of something.

As Claude LeLouche said, his favorite American director is Sergio Leone. Not because I would be American, but because I was dealing with subject matter that an American could have just as easily dealt with.

I've always believed that true cinema is cinema of the imagination.