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

I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?

Fate is written in the face.

When I do things without any explanation, but just with spontaneity...I can be sure that I am right.

When the most important times are occurring, we don't even recognize them or notice. We are just busy living our lives. Only looking back do we know what was a great moment in our lives.

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.

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