If we succeed with something, that is only because others are in need of what e have produced. And the more success we have with something, the more people require that we express it. So it goes without saying, as a result of this we in principle never win out, others win. We always lose

Never trouble anyone else with what you can do yourself

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

Above all, I feel that the sounds of this world are so beautiful in themselves that if only we could listen to them properly, cinema would have no need for music at all.

ALL ART, OF COURSE, IS INTELLECTUAL, BUT FOR ME, ALL THE ARTS, AND CINEMA EVEN MORE SO, MUST ABOVE ALL BE EMOTIONAL AND ACT UPON THE HEART.

For me the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged by an overriding passion.

We have forgotten to observe. Instead of observing, we do things according to patterns.