All our thinking constitutes the new world, but all our thoughts are older and older.

What I like in pictures whether by an old director or a young director is when I have the feeling he or she is really using the capacity of film.

The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires.

Photography is truth...and cinema is truth 24 times a second.

Cinema is capitalism in its purest form.... There is only one solution - turn one's back on American cinema.

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

First there was Greek civilization. Then there was the Renaissance. Now we’re entering the Age of the Ass.