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.

This new world which is being born is cynical and amnesiac. And it has eliminated perspective.

I believe what Jesus said, but Jesus never said priests couldn't be fools.

When I go in front of the light - go towards it - it is because it brings me energy. That's all.

Through most of my career I've made a decent living making movies no one wants to see.

To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body - both go together, they can't be separated.

Even with painting, even abstract paintings, you need the incoming of, light on the canvas.