Those who cannot condemn the past repeat it in order to remember it.

Think of my movies as heightening our awareness, not confusing the difference between truth and fiction, but heightening our awareness of how confused we can become about what is real.

There is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it.

It's a kind of honour when I see how many people are imitating the style of how I make films.

Those who cannot condemn the past repeat it in order to remember it.

Long, long before I became a filmmaker I was talking to killers. Filmmaking was an after thought.

Listening to what people were saying wasn't even important. But it was important to look as if you were listening to what people were saying. Actually, listening to what people are saying, to me, interferes with looking as if you were listening to what people are saying.