The 1980s really ended for me in 1992 with the film Kika.

I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion.

I think décor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about the aesthetic way I have chosen to tell their story.

Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

Even though I love my mother, I didn't want to make an idealized portrait of her. I'm fascinated more by her defects - they are funnier than her other qualities.

I make movies for my needs. My goal has never, never, never been to make shocking movie.

Anything that is not autobiography is plagiarism.

I think that the consciousness of passion makes you act very differently.

Cinema has become my life. I dont mean a parallel world, I mean my life itself. I sometimes have the impression that the daily reality is simply there to provide material for my next film.

A dead love never dies.

Each actor is a very different person, and each one has to be directed very differently.

Children are the true connoisseurs. What's precious to them has no price - only value.

The more ships have grown in size and consequence, the more their place in our imagination has shrunk.

China has leapfrogged into this information age, and Web users have grown very significantly, which knocked down the cost of doing the environmental transparency.

Certainly any president - Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative - should keep an open mind until they get the briefing.

With adolescent egotism and a lot of money one can pretty much rule the world.

I don't like writers. They're dangerous people.

A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.

There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.

There is no greater punishment than that of being abandoned to one's self.

The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.