The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making. Yet pleasure in the work can’t be achieved unless you know you have put all of your strength into it and have done your best to make it come alive. A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.

I like silent pictures and I always have ... I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this way: one of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.

Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied... That's why they can keep on working. I've been able to work for so long because I think next time, I'll make something good.

Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.

Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.

I can't afford to hate anyone. I don't have that kind of time.

Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.