Growing older is like climbing a mountain: the higher you get, the more strength you need, but the further you see.

We make each other alive; it doesn’t make a difference if it hurts.

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

Here, in my solitude, I have the feeling that I contain too much humanity.

The theater is like a faithful wife. The film is the great adventure - the costly, exacting mistress.

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.

Fellini, Kurosawa, and Bunuel move in the same field as Tarkovsky. Antonioni was on his way, but expired, suffocated by his own tediousness.