Real artists find answers. The knowledge of the artisan is within the confines of his skills. For example, I know a lot about lenses, about the editing room. I know what the different buttons on the camera are for. I know more or less how to use a microphone. I know all that, but that's not real knowledge. Real knowledge is knowing how to live, why we live, things like that.

This man (Bergman) is one of the few film directors-perhaps the only one in the world-to have said as much about human nature as Dostoevsky or Camus.

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

We all steal, but if we're smart we steal from great directors. Then, we can call it influence.

In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something.

I believe the life of every person is worthy of scrutiny, containing its own secrets and dramas.

(When asked what a director does) I help.