I wanted to describe the world at the same time, through image, express what I felt. It was the time of the great documentary filmmakers: Richard Leacock, Joris Ivens. Today, television has put an end to this type of filmmaking.

You make films to give people something, to transport them somewhere else, and it doesn't matter if you transport them to a world of intuition or a world of intellect...The realm of superstitions, fortune-telling, presentiments, intuition, dreams, all this is the inner life of a human being, and all this is the hardest thing to film... I've been trying to get there from the beginning. I'm somebody who doesn't know, somebody who's searching.

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

Of course, you could, no doubt, call my going to film school the biggest mistake I ever made.

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

I like chance meetings - life is full of them. Every day, without realising it, I pass people whom I should know.

The television industry doesn't like to see the compexity of the world. It prefers simple reporting, with simple ideas: this is white, that's black; this is good, that's bad.