Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.

Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.

Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.

A good movie is made by an initial burst of energy, the way that, when you are in school, your class exercises are always better than your final projects.

I really think that I don't mind people sleeping during my films, because I know that some very good films might prepare you for sleeping or falling asleep or snoozing. It's not to be taken badly at all. This is something I really mean.

As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that's less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.