"Away, away," says hate. "Closer, closer," says love.

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.

I think laughter comes because things are hardly working.

If we think today the way TV is ordering us to think, we think of Einstein as someone modern. Stravinsky is modern music, but it came at the time of Birth of a Nation, which is an old movie.

Why all these signs around us that make me doubt language and submerge me in meanings, drowning reality instead of extracting it from the imaginary?

I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.

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