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" The camera is not your eye, and it's not the eye of the audience. I don't think it's my eye, either. It belongs to the film. "

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" 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 was never very interested in my own experience, I think, in fact, if my films have a common link, maybe it's being a foreigner - it's common for people who are born abroad - they don't know so well where they belong. "

" We don't all look alike - some people think they're tough, some people think they're fragile - but in the end, we share a lot. "

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" I think cinema is linked to literature by a lot of social ways. Our brains are full of literature - my brain is. "

" I've heard it said many times, 'Let's work on the look of the film,' but that doesn't work with me. "

" The cinema should be human and be part of people's lives; it should focus on ordinary existences in sometimes extraordinary situations and places. That is what really motivates me. "

" I hate the victimization of women, always. "

" Because TV is mostly close up, it has to be fast. And because it has to be fast, you don't have time to explain completely, by a sequence shot, what's happening between people. So instead of experiencing what's happening, say, when a couple is dancing, dialogue is used to explain. "

" Making pizza is a great job. All that kneading the dough - everything to do with cooking is wonderful, sensual. "

" 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'm not witty. "

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" I am not at all interested in theories about cinema. I am only interested in images and people and sound. I am really a very simple person. "

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" 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. "

" I think a film noir demands a beginning and an end. "

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