Cinema is not a series of abstract ideas, but rather the phrasing of moments.

If I'm speaking it means that in one way or another when I say, "I'm cold" it belongs to me: I'm cold. But just by saying this it becomes general.

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.

The observer and the universe are part of the same universe. It's what science discovered at the beginning of this century, when they say you can't tell where an atomic particle is. You know where they are, but not their speed; or you know their speed but not their place, because it depends on you. The one who describes is part of the description.

Film is truth 24 times a second, and every cut is a lie.

When I go in front of the light - go towards it - it is because it brings me energy. That's all.

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.