My function is to make whoever sees my films aware of his need to love and to give his love, and aware the beauty is summoning him.

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

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

I think in fact that unless there is an organic link between the subjective impressions of the author and his objective representation of reality, he will not achieve even superficial credibility, let alone authenticity and inner truth.

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.

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.

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