True values entail suffering. That’s the way we think. All in all, we tend to view melancholia as more true. We prefer music and art to contain a touch of melancholia. So melancholia in itself is a value. Unhappy and unrequited love is more romantic than happy love. For we don’t think that’s completely real, do we?…Longing is true. It may be that there’s no truth at all to long for, but the longing itself is true. Just like pain is true. We feel it inside. It’s part of our reality.

My films generally center around thousands of pictures being flashed in rapid succession to create the illusion of motion.

I am a man who likes to control things, and if I can't control them totally I will not control them at all.

I had a lot of frustrations, and I was drinking far too much, and I was just trying to survive and this is what came out of it.

I know that I cannot be with a person for three hours without saying at least ten things that would kill me.

That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them

I come from a family of communist nudists. I was allowed to do or not do what I liked. My parents were not interested in whether I went to school or got drunk on white wine.