I have to say from the outset that not all prose can be transferred to the screen.

Never trouble anyone else with what you can do yourself

MANY MANAGE TO SEPARATE THEIR LIFE FROM THEIR FILMS. THEY LIVE ONE WAY AND EXPRESS OTHER IDEAS IN THEIR WORKS. THEY ARE ABLE TO SPLIT THEIR CONSCIENCE. I CAN'T. TO ME CINEMA IS NOT JUST MY JOB: IT'S MY LIFE, AND EACH FILM IS AN ACT OF MY LIFE.

When I speak of poetry I am not thinking of it as a genre. Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality. So poetry becomes a philosophy to guide a man throughout his life.

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

The death of childhood is the beginning of poetry.

A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.