What I like in pictures whether by an old director or a young director is when I have the feeling he or she is really using the capacity of film.

Words and action in movies are the spirit or the mind. And these days the body is almost completely forgotten. In the beginning the body - nature - was more part of the action.

You can be with other people, which is ideal, or you can be alone.

I am nowhere. You can call me the man in the middle.

(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.

I'm Franco-Swiss. I've always been shuttling between these two worlds, never firmly planted in either one.

Film begins with DW Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami.