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

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

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

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

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.

I think that high art reposes on popular art, without one there cannot be another.