If you have $300,000 to shoot a cigarette on a table, it's an enormous amount of money. Maybe that's why my movies are the way they are. But it's the only way I can make a living.

What is your greatest ambition in life?' 'To become immortal... and then die.

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

The way we have done pictures has to be disappeared.

To be or not to be. That's not really a question.

I've decided that what interests me most is that you can only capture the light at a certain time. But after that, five minutes after that, then it's a different thing. So if you don't have the right aperture, you've missed it. Of course, you can correct it in the lab. But not really.

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.