The most political decision you make is where you direct people's eyes. In other words, what you show people, day in and day out, is political...And the most politically indoctrinating thing you can do to a human being is to show him, every day, that there can be no change.

But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot protect something by building a fence around it and thinking that this will help it survive.

Photographs put time into such a perspective. They humble us and our selfish memories.

I sometimes feel fiction is the ideal preservation for real memories. Fiction is such a good place to keep things.

Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon.

Before you say cut, wait 5 seconds

Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money.