All art is autobiographical.

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.

Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.

A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.

A different language is a different vision of life.

Like many people, I have no religion, and I am just sitting in a small boat drifting with the tide. I live in the doubts of my duty.... I think there is dignity in this, just to go on working.... Today we stand naked, defenseless, and more alone than at any time in history. We are waiting for something, perhaps another miracle, perhaps the Martians. Who knows?

You have to live spherically - in many directions. Never lose your childish enthusiasm - and things will come your way.