Knowledge is truthful only if it’s based in morality.

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

History is not Time; nor is evolution. They are both consequences. Time is a state: the flame in which there lives the salamander of the human soul.

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.

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

My purpose is to make films that will help people to live, even if they sometimes cause unhappiness.

No 'mise en scène' has the right to be repeated, just as no two personalities are ever the same. As soon as a 'mise en scène' turns into a sign, a cliché, a concept however original it may be, then the whole thing - characters, situation, psychology - become schematic and false.