My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.

Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.

I have always appreciated the honest brutality of the international film world. One need never doubt one's worth in the market. Mine was zero.

The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second.

For me, the human face is the most important subject of the cinema.

I'm very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing.