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?

I am convinced that any attempt to restore harmony in the world can only rest on the renewal of personal responsibility.

Relating a person to the whole world: that is the meaning of cinema.

Never trouble anyone else with what you can do yourself

Juxtaposing a person with an environment that is boundless, collating him with a countless number of people passing by close to him and far away, relating a person to the whole world, that is the meaning of cinema.

Art could be said to be a symbol of the universe, being linked with that absolute spiritual truth which is hidden from us in our positivistic, pragmatic activities.

Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual...