Through most of my career I've made a decent living making movies no one wants to see.

When the film stock disappears, the matter - because movies are matter - (disappears). The laws of this have been established by Newton, Einstein, and others: there is a correspondence between light and matter, and light is matter. And energy.

All our thinking constitutes the new world, but all our thoughts are older and older.

Cinema is movement, after all.

Film is like a personal diary, a notebook or a monologue by someone who tries to justify himself before a camera.

There are two kinds of homeland: one that is given is like a negative, and one that you have to conquer is like the positive.

Self-portraits have been done in painting, but never in music or literature. It has no meaning, it makes no sense. And in movies I was wondering if it could. And how.