The Flower of My Secret is definitely more based in true emotions. I also wanted to make something more realistic, but not naturalistic or simple.

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.

For some reason, I thought Victor could heal that wound better than anyone else. It's strange to think that this vampire, the embodiment of all my hatred, could act like a suture.

It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.

War is the ultimate realization of modern technology.

A work of art is a form that articulates forces, making them intelligible.

I want great food and wine, and friends to enjoy it all.

Dining with one's friends and beloved family is certainly one of life's primal and most innocent delights, one that is both soul-satisfying and eternal.

We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment.

Secrecy is the enemy of efficiency, but don't let anyone know it.

The day I worry about cleaning my house is the day Sears comes out with a riding vacuum cleaner.

The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'.