Movies are explorations; they take you on a path, and I think it's always better if it's a path that you don't know, that takes twists and turns that…

- Olivier Assayas

I think movies are expressions of our imagination; they are expressions of our conscious and of our subconscious. I think that movies can be analyzed…

- Olivier Assayas

When I make films I'm very intuitive; I'm instinctive. When you are shooting there's little time to think about abstract ideas, it's about getting th…

- Olivier Assayas

I think that the mourning process of the film involves discussing it, dissecting it, and at some point, you get bored with it. I'm not there yet, but…

- Olivier Assayas

I hate to write and spend months just waiting for the film to get financed. Then when you start preparing the film and you shoot it, you've already f…

- Olivier Assayas

The idea to have both something that belongs to what we call supernatural and, at the same time, is anchored in the real world, I think it gives more…

- Olivier Assayas