A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.

One must confront vague ideas with clear images.

On TV you can't show landscapes. You just can't. Even a postcard is better.

It makes me laugh when you bring two things together which have nothing to do with one another.

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.

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.

The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires.