Every time I start a picture ... I feel the same fear, the same self-doubts . . . and I have only one source on which I can draw, because it comes from within 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?

All art is autobiographical.

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

Experience is what you get while looking for something else.

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

Life is a combination of magic and pasta.