i've always wanted, basically, to do research in the form of a spectacle.

I know that I am old, because even if I think I'm younger than everyone - but that's true - my way of hoping and continuing is that I am always in a younger position than the other one.

Now at my age I understand how sad it must have been for some directors or actors at the time the talkies began. Because, really, a whole continent disappeared.

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.

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

Action can make you laugh. But just because you are glad. Even if there is no meaning.

This is not a just image, this is just an image.