The relationship between the films and the individual Commandments [is] a tentative one. The films should be influenced by the individual Commandments to the same degree that the Commandments influence our daily lives.

Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.

I really don't know anything about music, and it's no great experience for me. But I do think that music has a purifying element.

Documentaries deal with people who live real, everyday lives. But if these people trusted us and told us the truth about their lives, it could be used against them - which sometimes happened.

Interior liberty is universal.

(When asked what a director does) I help.

You have to want to make a film for other reasons - to say something, to tell a story, to show somebody's fate - but you can't want to make a film simply for the sake of it.