And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.

I was making films about American society, and it is true that I never felt at home there, except perhaps when my wife and I lived on a farm in the San Fernando Valley.

You have to think with the heart.

I worked for UFA as a set designer, you know.

In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.

If I gamble, I'll play roulette. My wife and I will play roulette, and that's about it. I'm not a heavy gambler.