To be only spectacular should be 5 or 10 percent of cinema.

On TV you can't show landscapes. You just can't. Even a postcard is better.

Reportage is interesting only when placed in a fictional context, but fiction is interesting only if it is validated by a documentary context.

It makes me laugh when you bring two things together which have nothing to do with one another.

Truth is in all things, even partly, in error.

(Landscapes) are too close to painting. And TV has nothing to do with painting. It's just transmission. And you can't transmit a landscape, happily enough.

ALPHA-60: Your name is written "Ivan Johnson," but it is pronounced "Lemmy Caution," Secret Agent Zero Zero Three of the Outlands. You are a threat to the security of Alphaville. CAUTION: I refuse to become what you call "normal." ... ALPHA-60: You cannot escape. The door is locked. CAUTION: Try to stop me, pal.