Cinema has become my life. I dont mean a parallel world, I mean my life itself. I sometimes have the impression that the daily reality is simply there to provide material for my next film.

I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion.

I think décor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about the aesthetic way I have chosen to tell their story.

Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

Even though I love my mother, I didn't want to make an idealized portrait of her. I'm fascinated more by her defects - they are funnier than her other qualities.

I make movies for my needs. My goal has never, never, never been to make shocking movie.

Anything that is not autobiography is plagiarism.

I think that the consciousness of passion makes you act very differently.

A dead love never dies.

Each actor is a very different person, and each one has to be directed very differently.

All my movies are difficult to classify because they are very eclectic in mixing genres.

Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder. Leon Cass

You only grow when you are alone.

A man of character can have what a man of intellect can imagine.

Marie Curie is, of all celebrated beings, the only one whom fame has not corrupted.

There are no impediments now to corporations. None. And what they want is for us to give up. They want us to become passive. They want us to become tacitly complicit in our own destruction.

I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad.

A positive attitude toward life is always better.

It doesn't matter what blood or race or creed or color. Love is love and it breaks all boundaries and you just see it right away.

Most success springs from an obstacle or failure.

My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.