Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.

Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.

What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one... It’s this in-between that I’m calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one - which is really the realm of the artist.

I don’t like the idea of “understanding” a film. I don’t believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception of any work of art. Either a film has something to say to you or it hasn’t. If you are moved by it, you don’t need it explained to you. If not, no explanation can make you moved by it.

It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman.

Don't tell me what I'm doing; I don't want to know.

You exist only in what you do.