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.

I think I'm innocently representing a certain belief in motion pictures, and, well OK.

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

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

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

When Yeats said the center cannot hold, he was talking for himself, but it was true for the rest of us as well.

We are all older and more tired.