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.

Poetry is a game of loser-take-all.

I know that I am old, because even if I think I'm younger than everyone - but that's true - my way of hoping and continuing is that I am always in a younger position than the other one.

Cinema is movement, after all.

Cinema teaches us about the human body and how we look at things.

I write and film history; I don't make it.

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