The silent film, it was cut at the age of thirty.

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

When the film stock disappears, the matter - because movies are matter - (disappears). The laws of this have been established by Newton, Einstein, and others: there is a correspondence between light and matter, and light is matter. And energy.

In the beginning there was not even talking. In movies, there was no need for that. Because it was more evident if there was no talking. Only in sports does there remain this fervor, which can even become violent. There's this desire to see something big.

Self-portraits have been done in painting, but never in music or literature. It has no meaning, it makes no sense. And in movies I was wondering if it could. And how.

When you are out in the land, OK, you have the land but you are alone with it. And sometimes it is too much.

Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents.