"I don't read the critics."

"Cannes is a sort of gladiators' arena, and that's the fun part of it. When you accept to come here to open the festival, you know you are going to be criticised. I have no problem with the fact that I expose myself and the movie, and it's normal that I can disagree with the way some people feel."

"The difficulty with telling stories about real people is you have to find a way of mixing yourself into the matter."

"I don't like the actors to work together beforehand. I trust my intuition, and I like when the actors are the same."

"I want people to think about movies and how we watch them. Let them know it's okay to question the structure or how we're sometimes duped into a false sense of normalcy. Most of all, I want people to question the old standard practices of, 'This is how the structure of something should work,' or, 'This is how a character must behave.'"

"In my mind I'm a blind man doin' time."

"I think less is more when it comes to kissing in the movies."

"I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding."