If you want to make a documentary you should automatically go to the fiction, and if you want to nourish your fiction you have to come back to reality.

When we talked, I talked about me, you talked about you, when we should have talked about each other.

Mirrors should reflect before sending an image.

This new world which is being born is cynical and amnesiac. And it has eliminated perspective.

I like the idea of making films about ostensibly absolutely nothing. I like the irrelevant, the tangential, the sidebar excursion to nowhere that suddenly becomes revelatory. That's what all my movies are about. That and the idea that we're in possession of certainty, truth, infallible knowledge, when actually we're just a bunch of apes running around. My films are about people who think they're connected to something, although they're really not.

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Poetry is a game of loser-take-all.