Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man.

What I like in pictures whether by an old director or a young director is when I have the feeling he or she is really using the capacity of film.

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

People in life quote as they please, so we have the right to quote as we please. Therefore I show people quoting, merely making sure that they quote what pleases me

Words and action in movies are the spirit or the mind. And these days the body is almost completely forgotten. In the beginning the body - nature - was more part of the action.

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.

Cinema is not a series of abstract ideas, but rather the phrasing of moments.