We saw what happens with Bolsheviks. It was another catastrophe. I don't have the solution. The moviemaker can ask questions but not give solutions.

More and more, money is becoming a religion.

We don't live in Disneyland. We live in blood and in time, not in Fantasyland. We live in a tragic world.

Aggressive capitalism leads the world, and we can see the results, especially in Europe: more poverty for the vast majority, and more riches for a few.

Technology is an extension of our hands and our feet, not our spirit.

I initially studied literature [in France], and then I went to cinema school. I discovered the Cinematheque, and saw not only action movies and westerns, but also lots of serious movies.

Many years ago making movies was something. It was the major entertainment just to go to the cinema, once, twice a week. At the time, something like 400 million people went to the movies.

Essentially, filmmakers have to be free and not directed by power or politicians.

Once, we lived to love. Now, we live for power. The world is changing. But we cannot stop the evolution, or everything will come apart.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

At the time, 1980, people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear, resentment and anger.

I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.

People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome it'll no longer function.

I wouldn't have thought that a wrong theory should lead us to understand better the ordinary quantum field theories or to have new insights about the quantum states of black holes.

Composing is just another exciting thing. It's as exciting as being in a band. It's kind of like joining a new band for three months.

Whether it's Paris Hilton or Kim Kardashian or whoever, stupidity is certainly celebrated.

If I’d a knowed more, I would a loved more.

The eye sees all, but the mind shows us what we want to see.