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

There is no light in electronincs. There is lightening. But lightening is not real light.

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

Projection will disappear. And the possibility that was given by motion pictures will be missed. The possibility of there being a real audience - a group of people who have nothing in common, but, at a certain time of the day or the week, are able to look with other nknown neighbors at something bigger than they are. To look at their problems in big. Not in small.

Once we know the number one, we believe that we know the number two, because one plus one equals two. We forget that first we must know the meaning of plus.

(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.

One can be a good critic and a moral observer, but one remains professionally detached as a writer and a filmmaker.