Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater..

I never made a film which fully satisfied me..

Normal love isn't interesting. I assure you that it's incredibly boring..

To the audience it doesn't really matter how much the director struggled with an actor. It's the result that counts..

I don't know anyone who is not using drugs for the reason that they're illegal..

I see Macbeth as a young, open-faced warrior, who is gradually sucked into a whirpool of events because of his ambition. When he meets the weird sist….

I consider myself more a craftsman than an artist..

Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve as revenge, to show that I could..

Whenever I get happy, I always have a terrible feeling..

The best films are because of nobody but the director..

I did not have a reputation to defend..

I know that atmosphere of the Parisian apartment building, with the twin menaces of the concierge on the ground floor and the landlord upstairs..

It's very important to set your place in a concrete environment. I think Chekhov said that the important thing when you have a play or any kind of no….

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children..

I still had some honor... I still have some now..

I would rather live in a country where children are protected and their predators prosecuted, and even (which in Hollywood is evidently not always th….

I like skiing, among other things, because I have moments when I am alone in the mountains. That's fantastic, when there's nobody around you. You see….

I admire actors for their infinite patience. That's why they need all those trailers and all their crowd of people who pamper them. But it is a drag ….

I sometimes cry in the moments that are not necessarily dramatic or tragic in the films, often because of the music. I wonder whether it's the music ….

I don't rehash the past. It's my baggage. That's all. I accept things as they are..

You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's ….