Film is truth 24 times a second, and every cut is a lie.

In films, we are trained by the American way of moviemaking to think we must understand and 'get' everything right away. But this is not possible. When you eat a potato, you don't understand each atom of the potato!

If you have made three or four films, my feeling is, he is older than me because I am still making my first movie. That helps me.

I like both slapstick and contradiction. Like philosophers.

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

I have a large number of cassettes, but I look at them mainly for reference purposes.

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.