People who grow bored in their own company seem to me in danger.

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

The death of childhood is the beginning of poetry.

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.

The Stalker seems to be weak, but essentially it is he who is invincible because of his faith and his will to serve others.

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

Clearly the hardest thing for the working artist is to create his own conception and follow it, unafraid of the strictures it imposes, however rigid these may be... I see it as the clearest evidence of genius when an artist follows his conception, his idea, his principle, so unswervingly that he has this truth of his constantly in his control, never letting go of it even for the sake of his own enjoyment of his work.