When less than everything has been said about a subject, you can still think on further. The alternative is for the audience to be presented with a final deduction (...) no effort on their part. What can it mean to them when they have not shared with the author the misery and joy of bringing an image into being?

IN CINEMA IT IS NECESSARY NOT TO EXPLAIN, BUT TO ACT UPON THE VIEWER'S FEELINGS, AND THE EMOTION WHICH IS AWOKEN IS WHAT PROVOKES THOUGHT.

The meaning of religious truth is hope.

My function is to make whoever sees my films aware of his need to love and to give his love, and aware the beauty is summoning him.

It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all.

Of course life has no point. If it had, man would not be free.

An artist needs knowledge and the power of observation only so that he can tell from what he is abstaining, and to be sure that his abstention will not appear artificial or false.