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

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.

For many, lack of achievement is more a consequence of fear of taking a chance and getting uncomfortable.

I sprayed my dog with off and he still sits in my favorite chair!!

Grace means God gives. Faith means I receive.

Even the kids, behind the slice of streetscape floating in the glass, had mastered the art of pretending not to see.

In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.

We work to become, not to acquire.

It is incumbent upon each of us to improve spending and savings practices to ensure our own individual financial security and preserve the collective economic well-being of our great society.

I hope I'll consider my next part, having learnt from this one.

I never had a typewriter. I never had any machines.

If in normal conditions it is skill, which counts, in such extreme situations, it is the spirit, which saves.