The camera is the slave to the actor.

I’ve never seen an exploding helicopter. I’ve never seen anybody go and blow somebody’s head off. So why should I make films about them? But I have seen people destroy themselves in the smallest way, I’ve seen people withdraw, I’ve seen people hide behind political ideas, behind dope, behind the sexual revolution, behind fascism, behind hypocrisy, and I’ve myself done all these things. So I can understand them. What we are saying is so gentle. It’s gentleness. We have problems, terrible problems, but our problems are human problems.

As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail.

Art films aren't necessarily photography. It's feeling. If we can capture a feeling of a people, of a way of life, then we made a good picture.

No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.

We don't take the time to be vulnerable with each other

We only have two hours to change people's lives.