I do not say with words. I do not say it with images either.… I do not say, I show. I show people who move and speak. That is all I know how to do, but that is my true subject.

A good film is also a documentary

You can't think of nothing.

Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.

I don't owe my success to state subsidies but to a faithful public which has sustained me.

But if I didn't read, I'd think, and thinking, when you come down to it, is the most painful thing of all, and the most monopolizing

You have to know how to go against the trend of the times.