Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.

I am only interested in the views of two people: one is called Bresson and one called Bergman.

...art must must carry man's craving for the ideal, must be an expression of his reaching out towards it; that art must give man hope and faith. And the more hopeless the world in the artist's version, the more clearly perhaps must we see the ideal that stands in opposition - otherwise life becomes impossible! Art symbolises the meaning of our existence.

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

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

If there are some who talk the same language as myself, then why should I neglect their interests for the sake of some other group of people who are alien and remote? They have their own 'gods and idols' and we have nothing in common. ... If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for them: that you simply want to collect their money.

Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.