Relating a person to the whole world: that is the meaning of cinema.

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.

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

Art is born out of an ill-designed world.

The death of childhood is the beginning of poetry.

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

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