One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

All you need to make a film is a girl and a gun

If you have $300,000 to shoot a cigarette on a table, it's an enormous amount of money. Maybe that's why my movies are the way they are. But it's the only way I can make a living.

I think I'm innocently representing a certain belief in motion pictures, and, well OK.

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

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.

The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn't.