Sometimes bleak is good. Sometimes bleak is necessary. Some part of life is always bleak.
I think working as an assistant was a part of knowing people who like cinema, and to learn from a movie, you have to watch it.
Often, women as little girls are sent off on a track for them to live a perfect life and be a perfect woman. Not for boys, who can be themselves with their mood and their temper.
A film takes a lot of time, and yet not enough to share with the people you're making the movie with, I think.
I hate family pressures and family responsibilities. I'm more comfortable as a stranger. I always imagined I could just live in a hotel. I'm afraid of family.
My mother's father was from Brazil - a painter, and not a famous one - and was always broke. But he was a free spirit, a great grandfather.
Filmmaking creates a sort of - trust, maybe. It has led me to a group of people I feel good with. We have something in common because of film, when otherwise we might have nothing.
The only thing I find interesting is self-interest.
I can't imagine a society with absolutely no solidarity. For me, it's a nightmare. And I don't want to live in a place like that.
When I was doing 'Beau Travail,' I listened a lot to Benjamin Britten.
I don't think I see the way bodies move in any special way. People say I do, but everybody moves. I don't see why all of a sudden I'm a specialist in the way bodies move.
Africa is no more this poor continent. It's on the march.
I have very strong relationships with my actors when I'm shooting. When you love an actor's work, you always feel you have to go further, and you make several films together. One film just gives you time to get acquainted.
I always thought Vincent Lindon had a sexy body, a body you can trust, a solid body you can lean on.
In Kurosawa's films, the tragedy is that this strong man was crushed by corruption or mistrust at the end.
When making a film, if I feel nothing in my body, I can't work. I have to touch. I have to feel. I never stop touching.
I'm not witty.
I'm a very sinister person.
I hate the victimization of women, always.
I think you cannot make films without choosing everything.
