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.

People in life quote as they please, so we have the right to quote as we please. Therefore I show people quoting, merely making sure that they quote what pleases me

Cinema is not a series of abstract ideas, but rather the phrasing of moments.

There are different kinds of painting, some with lights and some without, but still if you look at any painting here (in the light) and then over here (out of the light) it's an entirely different thing. The consciousness of this came to the Impressionists and I'm very interested in that.

Americans have no past, so they buy the pasts of others.

A critic is a soldier that fires on his own men.

The cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second.