The cinema is death at work.

The job of the poet (a job which can't be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force.

When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don't. I have a knack for disturbing.

And history becomes legend and legend becomes history.

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

I feel myself inhabited by a force or being -- very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.

The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.