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 movement, after all.

Cinema teaches us about the human body and how we look at things.

We are in the twentieth or the twenty-first century, but all the thinking, if you speak to one of those people keen on technology - you see that all their thinking is two centuries old. In cinema, you can show this.

In Europe, the houses and the apartments are getting smaller. So there is no need to increase the screen because the apartment is becoming smaller.

Film begins with DW Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami.

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