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

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.

I write and film history; I don't make it.

All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.

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.

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.

To be only spectacular should be 5 or 10 percent of cinema.