I like both slapstick and contradiction. Like philosophers.

If you have made three or four films, my feeling is, he is older than me because I am still making my first movie. That helps me.

All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.

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

Cinema teaches us about the human body and how we look at things.

(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.