It is true what Rimbaud said; If you think a book is strong enough, try it at the ocean, in the wind, at the waves. If the book can resist the ocean, then it exists. Otherwise, throw it away.

Why do I continue making movies? Making movies is better than cleaning toilets.

I didn't want to be alone, but I had to learn that the dimensions of my feelings are too violent. I had to learn this.

I knew there were, in myself, the souls of millions of people who lived centuries ago; not just people but animals, plants, the elements, things, even, matter. All of these exist in me.

I could be with a woman in a bed, for weeks even, and it would seem to me like three seconds. Or 300 years.

I am dying of hunger.

You leap over the wall of one ghetto and find yourself in another ghetto.