My feeling, however, is that films that are open are more productive for the audience. The films that, if I'm in a cinema, and I'm watching a movie t….

My films are intended as polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema and its dis-empowerment of the spectator. They are an appeal ….

At its best, film should be like a ski jump. It should give the viewer the option of taking flight, while the act of jumping is left up to him..

I'm not someone who enjoys long talks, long rehearsals. I'm very technical: I tell my actors, you come in, you sit down, you pick up a coffee, you lo….

Writers and filmakers, that is, people who describe the world, suffer from an occupational disease. They never experience moments in life quite spont….

Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide an answer to them, so they can send the spectator home reassured. If we actually had t….

If someone's lying to us, then it's rare that we know that they're lying to us. It's only in bad films that you recognize immediately that an actor's….

Usually music is used to hide a film's problems..

An artist is someone who should raise questions rather than give answers. I have no message..

I think that what's important as a director is to give your actors the feeling that they're protected, the feeling of confidence, the feeling that if….

I make my films because I'm affected by a situation, by something that makes me want to reflect on it, that lends itself to an artistic reflection. I….

I don't need a psychiatrist. I can sort out my fears with my work. That's the privilege of all artists, to be able to sort out their unhappiness ….

Film is simply the most complex way you can express yourself.

If I tell the audience what they should think, then I am robbing them of their own imagination and their own capacity of deciding what's important to….

It's the duty of art to ask questions, not to provide answers. And if you want a clearer answer, I'll have to pass..

Unfortunately, you're helpless when people interpret your work wrongly. There are simply people who can't or won't understand or accept what you're t….

When making a film, I'm never concerned about whether the theme is new or whether it's been done before in cinema or not. I'm led to make films if th….

It's unbearable when someone changes around you. Just imagine that your life partner changes, then it is difficult to cope with. Or your mother. Or y….

I'm not really a happy person. It's a question of temperament. I have a tendency toward melancholy. You can feel quite happily melancholic..

And I don't believe that children are innocent. In fact, no one seriously believes that. Just go to a playground and watch the kids playing in the sa….

And if there was one title that could be applied to all my films, it would be 'Civil War' - not civil war in the way we know it, but the daily war th….