In films, we are trained by the American way of moviemaking to think we must understand and 'get' everything right away. But this is not possible. When you eat a potato, you don't understand each atom of the potato!

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

You can't transmit a landscape, happily enough.

I don't know if I am free because I am happy or happy because I am free.

A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.

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.

On TV you can't show landscapes. You just can't. Even a postcard is better.