Objects exist and if one pays more attention to them than to people, it is precisely because they exist more than the people. Dead objects are still alive. Living people are often already dead.

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

When you photograph a face . . .you photograph the soul behind it.

You can be with other people, which is ideal, or you can be alone.

When Yeats said the center cannot hold, he was talking for himself, but it was true for the rest of us as well.

I'm satisfied to have an ordinary success and an ordinary life and an ordinary income. Later, I don't know.

Film begins with DW Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami.