Of course I'd like to get beyond the concrete. But it's really difficult. Very difficult.

I was happy when I got into film school. I'd simply satisfied my ambition to show them that I could get in - nothing else - although I do believe they shouldn't have accepted me. I was a complete idiot. I can't understand why they took me. Probably because I'd tried three times.

Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking?

Different people in different parts of the world can be thinking the same thoughts at the same time. It's an obsession of mine: that different people in different places are thinking the same thing but for different reasons. I try to make films which connect people.

I really don't know anything about music, and it's no great experience for me. But I do think that music has a purifying element.

I like chance meetings - life is full of them. Every day, without realising it, I pass people whom I should know.