If we think today the way TV is ordering us to think, we think of Einstein as someone modern. Stravinsky is modern music, but it came at the time of Birth of a Nation, which is an old movie.

Cinema is capitalism in its purest form.... There is only one solution - turn one's back on American cinema.

Movies are a world of Fragments.

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

When the film stock disappears, the matter - because movies are matter - (disappears). The laws of this have been established by Newton, Einstein, and others: there is a correspondence between light and matter, and light is matter. And energy.

The cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second.

If you want to make a documentary you should automatically go to the fiction, and if you want to nourish your fiction you have to come back to reality.