Even with painting, even abstract paintings, you need the incoming of, light on the canvas.

The silent film, it was cut at the age of thirty.

You can't transmit a landscape, happily enough.

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.

One must confront vague ideas with clear images.

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

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.