One can be a good critic and a moral observer, but one remains professionally detached as a writer and a filmmaker.

To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body - both go together, they can't be separated.

There are different kinds of painting, some with lights and some without, but still if you look at any painting here (in the light) and then over here (out of the light) it's an entirely different thing. The consciousness of this came to the Impressionists and I'm very interested in that.

When I go in front of the light - go towards it - it is because it brings me energy. That's all.

Film begins with DW Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami.

There is no point in having sharp images when you've fuzzy ideas.

A critic is a soldier that fires on his own men.