I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover for myself.

Documentary filmmaking ruins you for real life, because you learn to be extremely attentive.

Everything about a movie is manipulation.

It is always a problem to know what an image means.

Of course there's conscious manipulation! Everything about a movie is manipulation ... If you like it, it's an interpretation. If you don't like it, it's a lie - but everything about these movies is a distortion."

I'm interested in ordinary experience, and regardless of the precise definition of ordinary, and I've found that in so-called ordinary experience, there is as much comedy, tragedy, sadness, as there is in great drama. And I don't invent it, I recognize it.

Anybody whose mind is functioning at all can't be content with the way the world works.