Living, it can be sad too.

The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn't.

The projector will soon disappear. The camera, not really. OK, it depends... it depends on change.

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.

What is your greatest ambition in life?' 'To become immortal... and then die.

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

I think I'm innocently representing a certain belief in motion pictures, and, well OK.