I really, sincerely believe that one should trust the work, and not the author.

I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.

Continuity is boring.

I wanted to make a cinema of ideas, not plots, and to use the same aesthetics as painting, which has always paid great attention to formal devices of structure, composition and framing.

Too many proofs spoil the truth.

Painting is the supreme form of expression; you don't need to 'read' painting.

As you probably know, I'm often accused of intellectual exhibitionism and all forms of elitism. Although I can understand this point of view, it's a rather wasted argument because, if we regard areas of information as being elite and therefore somehow not usable, it means our centre-ground of activity becomes very, very impoverished.