You can't go to an LSD or pot party unless you take it yourself. If I want to go, I must take drugs myself.

The greatest danger for those working in the cinema is the extraordinary possibility it offers for lying.

Favourite directors change, like favorite authors. I had a passion for Gide and Stein and Faulkner. But now they're no use to me anymore. I've assimilated them - so, enough, they are a closed chapter. This also applies to film directors.

A film that can be described in words is not really a film.

When I see nature, when I look into the sky, the dawn, the sun, the colors of insects, snow crystals, the night stars, I don't feel a need for God. Perhaps when I can no longer look and wonder, when I believe in nothing - then, perhaps, I might need something else. But I don't know what.

A film you can explain in words is not a real film.

I can't give any absolute definition of what love is, or even whether it ought to exist.