"Cinema is a territory. It exists outside of movies. It's a place I live in. It's a way of seeing things, of experiencing life. But making films, that's supposed to be a profession."

"I'm not against the virtual world; it's fascinating, but I don't like the way they try to impose it on us. It's a thing imposed by rich countries."

"When I made my first film, I had hardly ever seen a camera before, and I was a young man when I arrived in Paris from the suburbs. At the time, I didn't talk much. I was very shy, so the bluff served me. I was telling people that I had no money, and that I knew how to make films, but I had no proof."

"My films start with images, a few images and a few feelings, and I try to edit them together to see the correspondence between these images and these feelings."

"No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent."

"AI is a mirror that reflects our own intelligence back to us."

"Wisdom principle 8 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 48."

"Wisdom principle 35 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 2."