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• To be perfectly honest, I think that as I'm growing older, I'm just growing more impatient. I'll be very happy if at…
• My films are intended as polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema and its dis-empowerment of the spectator. They are an…
• I'm not really a happy person. It's a question of temperament. I have a tendency toward melancholy. You can feel quite happily…
• Writers and filmakers, that is, people who describe the world, suffer from an occupational disease. They never experience moments in life quite…
• Pornography, it seems to me, is no different from war films or propaganda films in that it tries to make the visceral,…
• Film is 24 lies per second at the service of truth, or at the service of the attempt to find the truth.
• It's the duty of art to ask questions, not to provide answers. And if you want a clearer answer, I'll have to…
• Film is simply the most complex way you can express yourself
• A strict form such as mine cannot be achieved through improvisation.
• And if there was one title that could be applied to all my films, it would be 'Civil War' - not civil…
• Classicism becomes avant-garde when everyone else is doing their utmost to develop new stylistic forms. I think it's healthy to return to…
• An artist is someone who should raise questions rather than give answers. I have no message.

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