I think that religion is an integral part of human needs, but the question also is how you understand religion.

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.

All churches are an echo of this—the Cathedral of Nature.

Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.

Art is one of man's few serious activities.

Any kind of music can be written badly and it can be written wonderfully. I admire a top performer in any field.

You might be a redneck if in an effort to watch your cholesterol, you eat Spam Lite.

Sometimes bad things are going to happen in your life, and those things can make you stronger if you just learn how to get over them.

The new Disney cartoon 'Bambi' is interesting because it's the first one that's been entirely unpleasant.

Books will soon be obsolete in the schools... Our school system will be completely changed in the next ten years.

We're living in a state where no one can trust his telephone conversations, nor even his personal conversations in a room, in a bar or anywhere else.