The dumber people are, the more they feel the need for a broad set of shoulders they can lay their head against.

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.

I was so good at being a kid, and so terrible at being whatever I was now.

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.

In vain would science scan and trace Firmly her aspect. All the while, There gleams upon her far-off face A vague unfathomable smile.

Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you.

To pray well one must pray much.

The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots, but as a party of bandits

Every day is different and improvised. Sometimes, a song can lead to a completely different adventure. You can't control it.

Be clever and do not build walls, because in the future they will bring only shame to you!

I think it is important to maintain your personality, your roots, very important.

In all evils which admit a remedy, impatience is to be avoided, because it wastes that time and attention in complaints, that, if properly applied might remove the cause.