Because my movies are not successful, they are not shown. So I make a living from the budget.

I am a painter with letters. I want to restore everything, mix everything up and say everything.

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

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

I like the idea of making films about ostensibly absolutely nothing. I like the irrelevant, the tangential, the sidebar excursion to nowhere that suddenly becomes revelatory. That's what all my movies are about. That and the idea that we're in possession of certainty, truth, infallible knowledge, when actually we're just a bunch of apes running around. My films are about people who think they're connected to something, although they're really not.

To become immortal, and then to die.

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.