When I was 16 I discovered this island called cinema and I thought: 'Oh how wonderful, I'm ready.

I thank Henry James for the scene in the hotel room, that I stole from Portrait Of A Lady… This particular scene is the most beautiful scene ever written.

I care about cinema even though I haven't made many films.

I'm not a cineaste. I've made so few films. Sometimes it feels each one is the last one or the first one.

I don't work with people who ask me questions.

It's incredible how much cinema can do. We forget.

Every film starts with two or three images. Then I try to edit these images.

The virtual world is not the enemy. The pioneers invented a world they believed in, but the followers must follow that world whether they believe in it or not.

My films start with images, a few images and a few feelings, and I try to edit them together to see the correspondence between these images and these feelings.

Cinema is a territory. It exists outside of movies. It's a place I live in. It's a way of seeing things, of experiencing life. But making films, that's supposed to be a profession.

I'm not only my films, but I'm pretty much my films.

Why should man expect his prayer for mercy to be heard by What is above him when he shows no mercy to what is under him?

Logic issues in tautologies, mathematics in identities, philosophy in definitions; all trivial, but all part of the vital work of clarifying and organising our thought.

The music is the void. And you're the reason why.

I worked regularly from very early on, and some of it was probably a bit premature.

I am a stranger, learning to love the strangers around me

I feel very lucky that when I'm burnt out of acting I take to the pen and I write something I want to direct.

A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.

Not all schooling is education nor all education, schooling.

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

We face the future with our past and our present as guarantors of our promises; and we are content to stand or to fall by the record which we have made and are making.