I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.

I allow my intuition to lead my path.

What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?

Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.

My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.

Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.