Where once it was the physician who waged bellum contra morbum, the war against disease, now it's the whole society.

Everyone who lives in an industrialized society is obliged gradually to give up the past, but in certain countries, such as the United States and Japan, the break with the past has been particularly traumatic.

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

Cinema is a kind of pan-art. It can use, incorporate, engulf virtually any other art: the novel, poetry, theater, painting, sculpture, dance, music, architecture. Unlike opera, which is a (virtually) frozen art form, the cinema is and has been a fruitfully conservative medium of ideas and styles of emotions.

The most potent elements in a work of art are, often, its silences.

In photographing dwarfs, you don't get majesty & beauty. You get dwarfs.

The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one--or both. Usually both.