Unspoken feelings are unforgettable.

If you look for a meaning, you'll miss everything that happens.

Some sort of pressure must exist. The artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn’t look for harmony but would simply live in it. Art is born out of an ill-designed world.

A literary work can only be received through symbols, through concepts - for that is what words are; but cinema, like music, allows for utterly direct, emotional, sensuous perception of the work.

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

Modern mass culture, aimed at the "consumer", the civilisation of prosthetics, is crippling people's souls, setting up barriers between man and the crucial questions of his existence, his consciousness of himself as a spiritual being.

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