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

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

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

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.

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

I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.

A good film is also a documentary