My car is my best friend. My office. My home. My location. I have a very intimate sense when I am in a car with someone next to me. We're in the most….

I had intended to make another film, called Pocket Money, which was to be about children at a school. I was very much intrigued by the story [of Clos….

I think, just as footballers play better at home, maybe film-makers, too, create better at home, even though the rules of football are the same where….

I was mentioning with the digital camera, maybe this new fashion of filmmaking gives a closer look of what life may be like. But it's still nothing b….

I wasn't searching for a common denominator - I started wondering about the challenge of working in other cultures. What I reached was the sudden ack….

When we start shooting I don't have rehearsals with characters at all. So, rather than pulling them towards myself, I travel closer to them; it's ver….

I really haven't seen The Report in a long time. I don't have a copy, but I'll have to see it again. I think it would be good to put both these men n….

I never really learned photography..

If I do continue to have the opportunity to work in Iran, that's very much what I'd prefer to do..

It's not so much a question of whether we've shot it through 35mm or digital video; what is important is whether the audience accepts it as real..

I think it was [Jean-Luc] Godard who said that life is nothing but a bad copy of film, but then our ambition must be to make better films and better ….

I have no advice for anyone on how to live..

When I'm in the process of making a movie I'm not thinking about the finished result, and whether people have to see it once or more than once, and w….

The only thing that I can do is hold a mirror in front of men and women, in front of the viewer in the theater, to reflect. There is nothing but refl….

There were years when Hitchcock was like a master to me, but now I think he's so artificial. I can watch films and say how technically beautiful they….

You've noticed that same joke told by two different people, once works, and the other time doesn't, simply because how the person edits it. The silen….

I thought that choosing a non-professional was a condition for me, because it would allow Juliette to have a less-professional way of acting. It woul….

I saw this French woman, this English man in Italy. It was a film [Certified Copy] I knew well, but I had already seen it, and I was familiar with it….

Of the hundreds of points to enter and exit that are offered to me, I have to choose the one that I feel is the least wrong, the least fake. It is fa….

I do believe that a film like Ten could never have been made with a 35mm camera. The first part of the film lasts 17 minutes, and by the end of that ….

In my opinion the man looks at the relationship in a more bitter fashion and the woman still holds great hopes..