[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.

My mother was an actress. My father was an actor and a director. I am the son of filmmakers.

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

I've seen films that have made as much as $100, $200 million, but they're not films. They're images. They're flashes. They're many beautiful images, lots of things to look at. They capture you. But it's not a film. It's not something that involves you in a story. They go to cinema now to be blown away by the effects.

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

I even had success with commercials, which is strange, because out of the six ideas, two won the platinum Minerva in France - it's the Oscar for their commercials. One was about the Renault diesel and the other about the regular Renault.

Women had enormous weight in America. And they still have. Because they are truly the padrone [owners, masters] of America.