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

You have to continue and discover the grammar of things, of what we can see.

Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents.

I've always said that to make movies, to make images and sound, is possible by one way or another. And it has not to be ruled by the Pharaohs of Egypt, the Pharaohs from Hollywood or wherever. I have tried very hard to make even a small budget picture here. It always fails. Over a dozen times. And now I know why. It was only because I wanted to be in control of the money. To spend it the way I wanted.

Truth is in all things, even partly, in error.

If direction is a look, montage is a heartbeat. To foresee is the characteristic of both; but what one seeks to foresee in space, the other seeks in time.

I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.