Why must one talk? Often one shouldn't talk, but live in silence. The more one talks, the less the words mean. (Nana Kleinfrankenheim, Vivre Sa Vie)
One must confront vague ideas with clear images.
When we talked, I talked about me, you talked about you, when we should have talked about each other.
Americans have no past, so they buy the pasts of others.
I write and film history; I don't make it.
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.