Life should be taken ironically; otherwise, it becomes a tragedy.

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.

Today we no longer know what to call art, what its function is and even less what function it will have in the future. We know only that it is something dynamic - unlike many ideas that have governed us.

Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.

I'm more or less skeptical about marriage, because of family ties, relations between children and parents - it's all so depressing.

My films always leave me unsatisfied, since I've always worked under fairly disastrous conditions economically.

I read somewhere that happiness is like the bluebird of Maeterlinck: Try to catch it and it loses its color. It's like trying to hold water in your hands. The more you squeeze it, the more the water runs away.