Photography could have been invented in color. Colors existed.

There are different kinds of painting, some with lights and some without, but still if you look at any painting here (in the light) and then over here (out of the light) it's an entirely different thing. The consciousness of this came to the Impressionists and I'm very interested in that.

What is your greatest ambition in life?' 'To become immortal... and then die.

I don't think I've succeeded in making any really good films. There are moments, scenes, whole movements that sing. It has all added up to a cinema of sorts, even though I'm still learning my art.

There is no more discovery. Not since the beginning of this century. There are new gadgets. New important gadgets.

He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.

Poetry is a game of loser-take-all.