As a private person, professionally I am invisible.

Classicism becomes avant-garde when everyone else is doing their utmost to develop new stylistic forms. I think it's healthy to return to classical forms.

I give the spectator the possibility of participating. The audience completes the film by thinking about it; those who watch must not be just consumers ingesting spoon-fed images.

Film is simply the most complex way you can express yourself

I'm not really a happy person. It's a question of temperament. I have a tendency toward melancholy. You can feel quite happily melancholic.

An artist is someone who should raise questions rather than give answers. I have no message.

If I tell the audience what they should think, then I am robbing them of their own imagination and their own capacity of deciding what's important to them.

I don't need a psychiatrist. I can sort out my fears with my work. That's the privilege of all artists, to be able to sort out their unhappiness and their neuroses in order to create something.

I try to get closer to reality, to get close to the contradictions. The cinema world can be a real world rather than a dream world.

Drama lives on conflict. If you're trying to deal with social issues seriously, there's no way of avoiding violence, which is so present in society.

Film is 24 lies per second at the service of truth, or at the service of the attempt to find the truth.

She slid her fingers into his thick hair and melted while he kissed her as if there were no tomorrow. He tempted, he seduced, he enticed.And she willingly followed.

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given.

Man usually thinks liberty is the power of doing what he likes to do. That is license.

Human beings are like tea-bags. You don't know your own strength until you get into hot water.

Coincidences are glimpses in to the creative mind of the universe.

Childhood play is nothing more than an expression of our individuality and preparation for human interaction. Everybody’s an artist. Unfortunately we don’t treat them as such.

Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.

The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanity's.

Learning is to a man as the leaves and branches are to a tree, and it can be said that he should not be without it.