It is boring to have all the answers. Only political people have answers.

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 rare female scientist was depicted as masculine, coarse, ugly, careworn and industrious but making no significant contribution.

I think....you still have no idea. The effect you can have.

I didn't intend to go in that direction but strange things happen when the lights go out.

When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.

Something I am now convinced of, after researching Everyone Brave, is that none of us is born courageous in all respects.

What matters is how many times you get up.

There's not much to say about acting but this. Never settle back on your heels. Never relax. If you relax, the audience relaxes. And always mean everything you say.

If you continue to act now and be a member of the WWE Universe, you will see the same footage from... another... camera angle.

If you can play the blues, you can do anything.

One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.