I don't think I've succeeded in making any really good films. There are moments, scenes, whole movements that sing. It has all added up to a cinema of sorts, even though I'm still learning my art.

Through most of my career I've made a decent living making movies no one wants to see.

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

People like to say, 'What do you mean exactly?' I would answer, 'I mean, but not exactly.'

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

There are no more simple images... The world is too much for an image. You need several of them, a chain of images.

We are losing our own capacity because we are poisoned in one way or another.