Of course, we avoid death. To know something is inevitable is one thing. To accept, to truly feel it... that's different.

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.

World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.

Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely; or to be that thing which is the natural and proper object of love.

If you haven't been to Burning Man, you should do it once. It's an extraordinary experience. Some of the best artwork I've ever seen in or out of a museum. Amazing.

The music for me is paradise. I think it's where God lives.

It seems as though women keep growing. Eventually they can have little or nothing in common with the men they chose long ago.

A hysterical human? Who hadn't seen that before?

I play music as much as I can. I have a band called The Abiders. We've put out a couple of albums you can find on iTunes. We tour and all that stuff, so music is very much a part of my life.

I'm more interested in the writing than in the content per se (good writing can be about wallpaper and I'll devour it).

My brain cannot process failure... It WILL not process failure

If there is something that opens horizons, it is precisely ignorance.