(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.

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 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.

I am a painter with letters. I want to restore everything, mix everything up and say everything.

Reportage is interesting only when placed in a fictional context, but fiction is interesting only if it is validated by a documentary context.

To be only spectacular should be 5 or 10 percent of cinema.

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