If you're not compulsively a monomaniac, you'll never make a film. It's like taking the same chewing gum, every morning, and saying, "Okay, it has a …

- Jaco Van Dormael

When I write, I speak with ghosts for years, and I see images that are a little bit out of focus. I see faces, but the faces change. At the moment th…

- Jaco Van Dormael

An actor can play two or three lines where he says one thing, but plays the opposite. That's the most important moving part of a film.

- Jaco Van Dormael

In stories, everything has to have clear consequences and everything has to focus to the end. Everything at the end will give meaning to everything t…

- Jaco Van Dormael

When I fall in love, I don't know why I fall in love, I just know that I am in love.

- Jaco Van Dormael

Having a big budget, I have no problem with spending the movie. It's fantastic to have a big budget. It gives a lot of time. It gives a lot of freedo…

- Jaco Van Dormael

There is a big difference between storytelling and being alive. Those are the two things that I prefer in life - telling stories and being alive.

- Jaco Van Dormael

A film is like a message dropped in a bottle in the sea that somebody finds. Every time somebody finds it, it's a miracle. But, I don't know what the…

- Jaco Van Dormael