It's almost scary how stylish things can look if you take the color out - how much more you see the essence of things and how much more something can appear elegant.

Photographs put time into such a perspective. They humble us and our selfish memories.

Sex and violence was never really my cup of tea; I was always more into sax and violins.

Filmmaking is really connected to life and all of the expressions that different arts found to allow access to life. Filmmaking touches on all of it.

The reason I never wrote a novel is that I don't have what it takes to write characters, so they would all be talking differently. I lack that ability. If I were writing, they would all talk like me, and that's no good.

Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon.

Whoever came up first with that saying a picture is worth a thousand words didn't understand the first thing about either one.