The way we have done pictures has to be disappeared.

What is your greatest ambition in life?' 'To become immortal... and then die.

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

The trouble with Hollywood is that it has poisoned us. If you see a poster of a movie it is mainly the picture of a woman and a man. Always a love story. Yes. But it shouldn't be that way. It should be another (way).

If you want to make a documentary you should automatically go to the fiction, and if you want to nourish your fiction you have to come back to reality.

It makes me laugh when you bring two things together which have nothing to do with one another.

I don't think I've succeeded in making any really good films. There are moments, scenes, whole movements that sing. It has all added up to a cinema of sorts, even though I'm still learning my art.