Film is 24 lies per second at the service of truth, or at the service of the attempt to find the truth..

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

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..

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….

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 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 ….

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….

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….

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

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..

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….

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….

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..

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….

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….

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

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….

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….

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

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….

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