Life is full of a thousand red herrings, and it takes the history of a civilisation to work out which are the red herrings and which aren't.

There is visual illiteracy with text-oriented films like bloody 'Harry Potter' and 'Lord of the Rings.'.

My heroes among filmmakers would be people like Buñuel and Pasolini, who were of very high cinematic intelligence, but tread on a lot of toes.

Cinema is dead, long live cinema.

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.

Continuity is boring.