Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.

A different language is a different vision of life.

God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.

Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.

Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you’ve made is worth the misery of having to review it.

Experience is what you get while looking for something else.

A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.

No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.

Fate is written in the face.

It’s easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman.

Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.

You exist only in what you do.

Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

understanding” a film. I don’t believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception of any work of art. Either a film has something to say to you or it hasn’t. If you...

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.

The only place where you can be a dictator and still be loved is on the movie set

I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?

Borges is particularly stimulating to a man who works in the cinema, because the unusual thing about his writing is that it is like a dream, extraordinarily farsighted in calling up from the unconscious complete...

If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet…maybe we could understand something.

Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.

An artist is a provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one. It’s this in-between that I’m calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible...

No matter what happens, always Keep your childhood innocence. It’s the most important thing.

It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.