At its best, film should be like a ski jump. It should give the viewer the option of taking flight, while the act of jumping is left up to him.

Classicism becomes avant-garde when everyone else is doing their utmost to develop new stylistic forms. I think it's healthy to return to classical forms.

I give the spectator the possibility of participating. The audience completes the film by thinking about it; those who watch must not be just consumers ingesting spoon-fed images.

Film is simply the most complex way you can express yourself

I'm not really a happy person. It's a question of temperament. I have a tendency toward melancholy. You can feel quite happily melancholic.

An artist is someone who should raise questions rather than give answers. I have no message.

If I tell the audience what they should think, then I am robbing them of their own imagination and their own capacity of deciding what's important to them.

I don't need a psychiatrist. I can sort out my fears with my work. That's the privilege of all artists, to be able to sort out their unhappiness and their neuroses in order to create something.

I try to get closer to reality, to get close to the contradictions. The cinema world can be a real world rather than a dream world.

Drama lives on conflict. If you're trying to deal with social issues seriously, there's no way of avoiding violence, which is so present in society.

Film is 24 lies per second at the service of truth, or at the service of the attempt to find the truth.

The more intimate your relationship with God becomes the easier it will be for you to obey His leadings

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

My ex ask me where I'm moving I said 'On to better things.'

You need a danger to be safe in.

Indian-styled garments are very popular in the U.S., especially in areas near the beach, like Hawaii and Los Angeles.

By men's words we know them.

Living in an inner state of vulnerability is a powerful practice that opens our hearts, causing us to live in a state of gratitude for our life and life itself.

Maturity is the ability to live in someone else's world.

If I'd succeeded right away at acting I wouldn't have sought out writing.

Models come in all sizes and shapes.