Art is born out of an ill-designed world.

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.

My purpose is to make films that will help people to live, even if they sometimes cause unhappiness.

It is perfectly possible to be a professional director or a professional writer and not to be an artist: merely a sort of executor of other people's ideas.

Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I'd say that film is the sculpting of time.

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

Never trouble anyone else with what you can do yourself