THE ACT OF KILLING invents a new form of cinematic surrealism.

As for the "anger" of the volcano, we leave it up to the local populations who create their demons, their gods and their divine punishment.

In the face of the obscene, explicit malice of the jungle, which lacks only dinosaurs as punctuation, I feel like a half-finished, poorly expressed sentence in a cheap novel.

For example, how you would introduce a leading character into your film, and as an absolute ingenious example, [Elia] Kazan in his film Viva Zapata!, how he introduces his leading character Marlon Brando into the film. No film ever did it as wonderful as he did it.

I do not believe in the Cinema verite. Sometimes a really good lie is better than any truth.

The danger is to stupidly believe that depicting facts gives us much insight. If facts were the only thing that counted, the telephone directory would be the book of books.

Tourism is a mortal sin.