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

Self-portraits have been done in painting, but never in music or literature. It has no meaning, it makes no sense. And in movies I was wondering if it could. And how.

The world isn't a sad place, it's just big.

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

When you go to the cinema you look up, when you watch television you look down.

I've always considered the French-speaking part of Switzerland as a province of France.

There is no light in electronincs. There is lightening. But lightening is not real light.