The truth of a thing is in the feel of it, not in the think of it.

I'm happy - at times - making films. I'm certainly unhappy not making films.

I'm just an old man and I smell bad, remember?

The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.

A satirist is someone who has a very skeptical view of human nature, but who still has the optimism to make some sort of a joke out of it. However brutal that joke might be.

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.

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. If it can be written or thought, it can be filmed.