The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires.

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.

Self-portraits have been done in painting, but never in music or literature. It has no meaning, it makes no sense. And in movies I was wondering if it could. And how.

"Away, away," says hate. "Closer, closer," says love.

In movies, comedy and tragedy are all the same.

I have a large number of cassettes, but I look at them mainly for reference purposes.

The silent film, it was cut at the age of thirty.