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

When Yeats said the center cannot hold, he was talking for himself, but it was true for the rest of us as well.

The projector will soon disappear. The camera, not really. OK, it depends... it depends on change.

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.

Film begins with DW Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami.

I like the idea of making films about ostensibly absolutely nothing. I like the irrelevant, the tangential, the sidebar excursion to nowhere that suddenly becomes revelatory. That's what all my movies are about. That and the idea that we're in possession of certainty, truth, infallible knowledge, when actually we're just a bunch of apes running around. My films are about people who think they're connected to something, although they're really not.

Europe has memories, America has t-shirts.