[The director] has to, I feel, be one step back, not only from cinema, but also from politics and all these issues in order to tell and depict the situation that spreads to people.

When I go to the cinema, I'm often frustrated because I can guess exactly what is going to happen about ten minutes into the screening. So, when I'm working on a subject, I'm always looking for the element of surprise.

I really do believe that the Jesuit system is better for a country.

Where life had no value, death, sometimes, had its price. That is why the bounty killers appeared.

The very fact of seeking specialization is probably what makes America so great in these two hundred years. But also, the sensation that somebody who wants to understand America doesn't really need to visit it much.

I am searching as Diogenes did with his lantern for all of these wonderful human beings. I haven't found them yet.

It's difficult to find new solicitations, new expressions. But this is talking about filmmaking. Cinema.