Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie

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

The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive

It's a passion when you're doing it for other people and you're doing it for the people around you making the film and the people who are going to see the film, and the giving. When you start thinking about you doing it for some sort of self-gain, then I think it becomes an obsession. It becomes a negative experience.

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

You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction.