When Yeats said the center cannot hold, he was talking for himself, but it was true for the rest of us as well.

The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life.

I like both slapstick and contradiction. Like philosophers.

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.

The trouble with Hollywood is that it has poisoned us. If you see a poster of a movie it is mainly the picture of a woman and a man. Always a love story. Yes. But it shouldn't be that way. It should be another (way).

I write and film history; I don't make it.

Photography is truth.