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

The silent film, it was cut at the age of thirty.

All you need to make a film is a girl and a gun

Reportage is interesting only when placed in a fictional context, but fiction is interesting only if it is validated by a documentary context.

First there was Greek civilization. Then there was the Renaissance. Now we’re entering the Age of the Ass.

In the beginning there was not even talking. In movies, there was no need for that. Because it was more evident if there was no talking. Only in sports does there remain this fervor, which can even become violent. There's this desire to see something big.

If direction is a look, montage is a heartbeat. To foresee is the characteristic of both; but what one seeks to foresee in space, the other seeks in time.