What I like are films that take me seriously, that don't treat me as more stupid than I am.

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.

The light within the darkness- you've lost sight of it.

Revenge is the easiest of emotions to understand and to manipulate.

Mexico will pay for it [the wall], because they are not doing us any favors. They could stop all of this illegal trade if they wanted to immediately.

After the collapse of Wall Street in the 1920s, the culture stopped being all about money, and the country survived and ultimately flourished.

He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.

I've always believed in instinct over intellect. The instinct is what you always knew; intellect is what you figure out.

I can't blend in to how everyone else is looking.

Even if you didn't come to meet me, I'm just going to like you.

You just can't have a position where some pumped up bunyip potentate dismisses an elected government.

It's about being here in the moment, accepting one another and allowing creativity to flow.