1. “There is no form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect.”
2. “I am living permanently in my dream, from which I make brief forays into reality.”
3. “The individualists stare into each other’s eyes and yet deny the existence of each other.”
4. “No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.”
5. “Growing older is like climbing a mountain: the higher you get, the more strength you need, but the further you see.”
6. “Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.”
7. “We make each other alive; it doesn’t make a difference if it hurts.”
8. “I hope I never get so old I get religious.”
9. “To shoot a film is to organize an entire universe.”
10. “Most of my conscious efforts have ended in embarrassing failure.”
11. “Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.”
12. “I feel very strongly that I’m surrounded by other realities.”
13. “I have always had the ability to attach my demons to my chariot.”
14. “Today we say all art is political. But I’d say art has to do with ethics. Which after all really comes to the same thing. It’s a matter of attitudes.”
15. “Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.”
16. “I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.”
17. “I think I have made just one picture that I really like.”
18. “A film causes me s many worries and such a lot of reactions that I have to love it in order to get over it and past it.”
19. “Artistic license sneered through the thin fabric.”
20. “Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie eve though one endeavours to tell the truth.”
