Action can make you laugh. But just because you are glad. Even if there is no meaning.

I like the idea of making films about ostensibly absolutely nothing. I like the irrelevant, the tangential, the sidebar excursion to nowhere that suddenly becomes revelatory. That's what all my movies are about. That and the idea that we're in possession of certainty, truth, infallible knowledge, when actually we're just a bunch of apes running around. My films are about people who think they're connected to something, although they're really not.

Truth is in all things, even partly, in error.

If you have $300,000 to shoot a cigarette on a table, it's an enormous amount of money. Maybe that's why my movies are the way they are. But it's the only way I can make a living.

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

I'm very interested in tennis, but when I try to tell younger players about [Bill] Tilden, they're not interested.

You can't transmit a landscape, happily enough.