Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way to make heads or tails of it is going through intuition.

There's always fear of the unknown where there's mystery.

We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.

I like the saying: "The world is as you are." And I think films are as you are. That's why, although the frames of a film are always the same - the same number, in the same sequence, with the same sounds - every screening is different. The difference is sometimes subtle but it's there. It depends on the audience. There is a circle that goes from the audience to the film and back. Each person is looking and thinking and feeling and coming up with his or her own sense of things. And it's probably different from what I fell in love with.

Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything.

Dark things have always existed but they used to be in a proper balance with good when life was slower.

The greatest thing my father left me was a love for cutting wood - my love for sawing, especially pine wood.