To be only spectacular should be 5 or 10 percent of cinema.
If you want to make a documentary you should automatically go to the fiction, and if you want to nourish your fiction you have to come back to reality.
i've always wanted, basically, to do research in the form of a spectacle.
I've always considered the French-speaking part of Switzerland as a province of France.
I have a large number of cassettes, but I look at them mainly for reference purposes.
The fact is that, unless you are very good, most first movies are too long, and you lose your rhythm and your audience over two or three hours.
One can be a good critic and a moral observer, but one remains professionally detached as a writer and a filmmaker.
If I'm speaking it means that in one way or another when I say, "I'm cold" it belongs to me: I'm cold. But just by saying this it becomes general.
I'm Franco-Swiss. I've always been shuttling between these two worlds, never firmly planted in either one.
The projector will soon disappear. The camera, not really. OK, it depends... it depends on change.
The trouble with Hollywood is that it has poisoned us. If you see a poster of a movie it is mainly the picture of a woman and a man. Always a love story. Yes. But it shouldn't be that way. It should be another (way).
(Landscapes) are too close to painting. And TV has nothing to do with painting. It's just transmission. And you can't transmit a landscape, happily enough.
Something that I like in movies, and I dislike too, is that they can't be projected well.
On TV you can't show landscapes. You just can't. Even a postcard is better.
We are in the twentieth or the twenty-first century, but all the thinking, if you speak to one of those people keen on technology - you see that all their thinking is two centuries old. In cinema, you can show this.
I'm very interested in tennis, but when I try to tell younger players about [Bill] Tilden, they're not interested.
I've decided that what interests me most is that you can only capture the light at a certain time. But after that, five minutes after that, then it's a different thing. So if you don't have the right aperture, you've missed it. Of course, you can correct it in the lab. But not really.
In the beginning there was not even talking. In movies, there was no need for that. Because it was more evident if there was no talking. Only in sports does there remain this fervor, which can even become violent. There's this desire to see something big.
When there's 100 people around you can't really forget yourself.
TV has nothing to do with painting. It's just transmission.
I don't like Paris or being in big cities.
We are losing our own capacity because we are poisoned in one way or another.
If you have made three or four films, my feeling is, he is older than me because I am still making my first movie. That helps me.
Action can make you laugh. But just because you are glad. Even if there is no meaning.
The silent film, it was cut at the age of thirty.
