When the film stock disappears, the matter - because movies are matter - (disappears). The laws of this have been established by Newton, Einstein, and others: there is a correspondence between light and matter, and light is matter. And energy.

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

I'm Franco-Swiss. I've always been shuttling between these two worlds, never firmly planted in either one.

You have to continue and discover the grammar of things, of what we can see.

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

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

I would never see a good movie for the first time on television.