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

Nothing is sadder than laughter; nothing more beautiful, more magnificent, more uplifting and enriching than the terror of deep despair.

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

Going to the cinema is like returning to the womb; you sit there, still and meditative in the darkness, waiting for life to appear on the screen.

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

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?

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