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 can't see America any other way than with a European's eyes. It fascinates me and terrifies me at the same time.

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

When I used a woman in my films or wrote a woman into my film, I wanted her to be a central point and a motivating point or a catalyst to function in the film.

I think even in American schools, they must be studying in a specialized manner.

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

I'm terrified by young people who are doing what they think is film making. What they're really doing is taking that convulsed, fast rhythm of commercials. It's not film making.