My job is just to make the films and then I don't have any strategy.

Europeans used to be proud to be the advanced form of democracy. Now they're definitely a little bit ashamed because we are seeing that finally, the bond that we had, it was money.

I would not like to have a homogeneous type of film. I wanted to go to many different kinds of ways of making cinema and telling stories and watching the country.

I think that I prefer to shoot characters even if they are not good people. I don't think that cinema is a place where you can do sentences like in a court.

In general I'm more attached to a cinema that tries not to replicate the real world and life.

I would not describe myself as a left-wing filmmaker. I don't think this is the first thing that would pop into my mind when talking about my work.

I think that there's a very lucid side in cinema: entering a theater and seeing the film.

You can't be completely in love with a dragon and expect anything to be normal.

I want to speak up and tell you that mascara and clothes don't make you cool, neither do name-brand handbags, but being a leader can.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

Poetry teaches us how to live in a world in which none of us belongs.

Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.

A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.

I like being fooled. When I watch someone who does sleight-of-hand and fools me, it's a great feeling.

Poetry, like love, is something we never truly say goodbye to.

One of the best things that came out of the Carter administration was the energy policy. The best things in it were renewable energy.

No living thing is insignificant.