Hollywood was invented by hoodlums from central Europe. And today a Hollywood lawyer is not a hoodlum. He's a bureaucrat.

TV has nothing to do with painting. It's just transmission.

The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life.

Mirrors should reflect before sending an image.

When I go in front of the light - go towards it - it is because it brings me energy. That's all.

Words and action in movies are the spirit or the mind. And these days the body is almost completely forgotten. In the beginning the body - nature - was more part of the action.

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.