You can't transmit a landscape, happily enough.

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

When I have a low budget I always try to make it a lesson in economy.

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.

To become immortal, and then to die.

This is not a just image, this is just an image.

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.