Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.

A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.

I don’t like the idea of “understanding” a film. I don’t believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception of any work of art. Either a film has something to say to you or it hasn’t. If you are moved by it, you don’t need it explained to you. If not, no explanation can make you moved by it.

I always direct the same film. I cannot distinguish one from the other.

I make pictures to tell a story, to tell lies, and to amuse.

I'd like very much to make a confident picture. I would like to be as good as nature, which, with a shower, produces flowers and grass to cover the destruction. But we are surrounded by human fragmentation, by pessimism, and it is difficult to talk of other things.