[on Edith Scob] She is a magic person. She gives the unreal reality.
[describing his style] I'm led to give documentary realism the appearance of fiction. Kafka becomes terrifying from the moment it is documentary. In documentary I work the other way round.
I admit I'm much more sensitive to the scenic than the dynamic. When I was tiny I saw a fire for the first time, and afterwards I saw the façade with nothing behind. I've kept the vision of something very artificial and strange- a façade with nothing behind. And what was in front of it? Space..now haunted..
Surrealism had taught me that reason comes after creation, and creation is a true deflagration when confronted, not with a solution, but an obstacle.