When I have a low budget I always try to make it a lesson in economy.

(Landscapes) are too close to painting. And TV has nothing to do with painting. It's just transmission. And you can't transmit a landscape, happily enough.

When you are out in the land, OK, you have the land but you are alone with it. And sometimes it is too much.

In films, we are trained by the American way of moviemaking to think we must understand and 'get' everything right away. But this is not possible. When you eat a potato, you don't understand each atom of the potato!

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

I believe what Jesus said, but Jesus never said priests couldn't be fools.

There is no more discovery. Not since the beginning of this century. There are new gadgets. New important gadgets.