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

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'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.

Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.

You exist only in what you do.