Throughout my pictures I employ a lighting which is not naturalistic.

These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition.

In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.

And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.

Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals.

Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye.

There is a wonderful expression: seeing through a glass darkly. Everything, even life, is inevitably removed from you. You can't reach, or touch, the real. You just see reflections