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.

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

American pictures usually have no subject, only a story. A pretty woman is not a subject. Julia Roberts doing this and that is not a subject.

There are two kinds of homeland: one that is given is like a negative, and one that you have to conquer is like the positive.

This is not a just image, this is just an image.

I never read Karl Marx.

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