There are two kinds of homeland: one that is given is like a negative, and one that you have to conquer is like the positive.

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

I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.

My aesthetic is that of the sniper on the roof.

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

I don't think I've succeeded in making any really good films. There are moments, scenes, whole movements that sing. It has all added up to a cinema of sorts, even though I'm still learning my art.

Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.