Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.

I want to be one of the artists in the cathedral on the great plain. I want to make a dragon's head, an angel, a devil - or perhaps a saint - out of stone.

One of ennui's most terribel components is the overwhelming feeling of ennui that comes over you whenever you try to explain it.

We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster's whim and the purest ideal.

I feel very strongly that I’m surrounded by other realities.

Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the truth.

The film medium is some sort of magic. I think also it's a magic that every frame comes and stands still for a fraction of a second and then it darkens. A half part of the time when you see a picture you sit in complete darkness. Isn't that fascinating? That is magic.