I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.

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.

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

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

There are no more simple images... The world is too much for an image. You need several of them, a chain of images.

Give me more. Let's do what has not been done.

Mirrors should reflect before sending an image.