A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.
The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.
Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.
It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman.
It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.
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?
Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.
Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.
Fate is written in the face.
A different language is a different vision of life.
Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.
Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can't teach old fleas new dogs.