The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.

How does anybody ever think of anything?

The feel of the experience is the important thing, not the ability to verbalize or analyze it.

You're constantly changing man. But the film's not changing. The film stays the same. That's the beautiful aspect of it.

I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.