If direction is a look, montage is a heartbeat. To foresee is the characteristic of both; but what one seeks to foresee in space, the other seeks in time.

When you photograph a face . . .you photograph the soul behind it.

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 tree or the road - the ones I know of, finally they are the only characters I know really. The human characters I don't know. So there is both something I know and something I don't know. And I put them together.

Hollywood was invented by hoodlums from central Europe. And today a Hollywood lawyer is not a hoodlum. He's a bureaucrat.

People like to say, 'What do you mean exactly?' I would answer, 'I mean, but not exactly.'

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