It's hard not to be afraid. Be less afraid.

Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.

Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.

Try not to live in a linguistic slum.

Each of us carries a room within ourselves, waiting to be furnished and peopled, and if you listen closely, you may need to silence everything in your own room, you can hear the sounds of that other room inside your head.

What interests me is to understand the nature of the modern.

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.