Art is actually based on the notion that if you would really celebrate an idea or a principle, you must think, you must plan, you must put yourself completely in the state of devotion, and not simply give the first thing that comes to your head

The way back is always shorter.

And what more could I possibly ask as an artist than that your most precious visions, however rare, assume sometimes the forms of my images.

I am not greedy. I do not seek to possess the major portion of your days. I am content if, on those rare occasions whose truth can be stated only by poetry, you will, perhaps, recall an image, even only the aura of my films.

I make my pictures for what Hollywood spends on lipstick.

Myth is the facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter.

The task of cinema or any other art form is not to translate hidden messages of the unconscious soul into art but to experiment with the effects contemporary technical devices have on nerves, minds, or souls.