The smallest wound or pain of the ego is examined under a microscope as if it were of eternal importance. The artist considers his isolation, his subjectivity, his individualism almost holy.

We didn't know that Mother had gone through a passionate love affair or that Father suffered from severe depression. Mother was preparing to break out of her marriage, Father threatening to take his own life.

If you like it, you'll find a way to justify it.
But if you don't , you'll find ways to falsify it.

I have always appreciated the honest brutality of the international film world. One need never doubt one's worth in the market. Mine was zero.

For me, the human face is the most important subject of the cinema.

I'm very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing.