What's important is the way we say it. Art is all about craftsmanship. Others can interpret craftsmanship as style if they wish. Style is what unites memory or recollection, ideology, sentiment, nostalgia, presentiment, to the way we express all that. It's not what we say but how we say it that matters.

All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

I’m just a storyteller, and the cinema happens to be my medium. I like it because it recreates life in movement, enlarges it, enhances it, distills it. For me, it’s far closer to the miraculous creation of life than, say, a painting or music or even literature. It’s not just an art form; it’s actually a new form of life, with its own rhythms, cadences, perspectives and transparencies. It’s my way of telling a story.

I never make moral judgments; I'm not qualified to do so. I am not a censor, a priest, or a politician.

No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.

Marriage, if it is to survive, must be treated as the beginning, not as the happy ending.

The picture is in your head, in your imagination, everything.