Amos Vogel was a mentor, a guiding light for me. In his presence, you always rose. But his importance to me is of minor significance. What is significant is that with him an entire epoch ends. The Last Lion has left us.I am still not capable - or rather unwilling - to understand the fact that Amos passed away, because a man like him cannot be dead. His traces are everywhere.

I'm not a journalist; I'm a poet. I had a discourse, an encounter with these people but I never had a list of questions.

Some of the most important caves, like Lascaux in the Dordogne region in France, have had to be closed down. There had been too many people allowed in, and they left a mold on the walls that is spreading and which can't really be stopped.

For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory.

It doesn't matter whether you shoot on celluloid or on digital, you better make a good film.

Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.

Martin Luther was asked, what would you do if tomorrow the world would come to an end, and he said, 'I would plant an apple tree today.' This is a real good answer. I would start shooting a movie.