Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I'd say that film is the sculpting of time.

If you look for a meaning, you'll miss everything that happens.

Unspoken feelings are unforgettable.

I am only interested in the views of two people: one is called Bresson and one called Bergman.

My purpose is to make films that will help people to live, even if they sometimes cause unhappiness.

Art is born out of an ill-designed world.

History is not Time; nor is evolution. They are both consequences. Time is a state: the flame in which there lives the salamander of the human soul.

Being silent for a while is good. Words can't really express a person's emotions.

Where am I when I'm not in reality or in my imagination?

Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual...

Becoming an artist does not merely mean learning something, acquiring professional techniques and methods. Indeed, as someone has said, in order to write well you have to forget the grammar.

Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.

Magic isn’t a far-off phenomenon.

Today our achievements are so vast that the whole world has become interested in them.

Concentrate on defense because the offense will come.

When you are younger, the camera is like a friend and you can go places and feel like you're with someone, like you have a companion.

I was always doing revolutionary things, things that would alert people, so they would stop being so subservient.

Fire consumes, but cold preserves.

I'm not particularly fond of the Hamptons.

I feel concerned by what happens in the world.... I don't want to merely document; I want to know why a certain thing disturbs or attracts me and how a situation can affect the person involved.