When someone is punched in the face, you find out what they are made of.

The most heroic thing you can do is tell someone that you love them.

Used properly, cinema is the coolest thing in the world.

Cinema for me only has meaning when it has a relationship with what I see outside on the street.

What interests me about genre is that the public connects immediately with it, it has certain rules, certain codes the audience recognizes. I can use that to create something very big.

Cool? Am I cool? I don't know, but I hope my characters are cool, in the sense of iconic. That's my job, at its very essence.

I really believe the form of the film must be in the scenario; cinema is not just added value to the scripting. I believe in it as a totality.

Something that I tell myself every morning when I wake up is like: "Think it over, take the time to think it over." I don't like spontaneity, there you go. I'm wary of it.

Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful.

Film is abstract, not definite. It is a dream.

I think that cinema has always progressed through exchanges.

In order to forgive, one must have lived through what I have lived through, and may God spare her that.

I realized women and humor were linked very closely.

Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.

When you create something out of nothing it's the most thrilling thing.

Live joyfully, without desire.

People bore me. Film people particularly bore me. I prefer talking to my trees

In the world there is no democracy better than our democracy. Such a thing has never before been seen.

All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to all things

Too many people want the appearance of winning rather than the practices and hard work that create a true champion.