The basic and essential human is the woman.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

I don't take art as seriously as politics.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Computers combine things to make new knowledge at such high speed that we cannot absorb it.

I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.

Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of failure with a death in it. But there is more lost paradise in them than defeat.