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.

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

The cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second.

Photography could have been invented in color. Colors existed.

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).

One can be a good critic and a moral observer, but one remains professionally detached as a writer and a filmmaker.

Through most of my career I've made a decent living making movies no one wants to see.