❝…It’s sort of like my handwriting as a movie director. And somewhere along the way, I think I’ve made the…

❝For all of the difficulties, all the frustrations and hardships, filmmaking is, finally, a human adventure.❞

❝Some people believe I make films with my head; a few others think they come from the heart; for my…

❝I've had to make my god, and my god is narrative filmmaking.❞

❝Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to…

❝Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.❞

❝Movies are pieces of film stuck together in a certain rhythm, an absolute beat, like a musical composition.❞

❝In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behavior and we sculpt light.❞

❝The cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.❞

❝Cinema is universal, beyond flags and borders and passports.❞

❝You have to want to make a film for other reasons - to say something, to tell a story, to…

❝The lasting and ultimately most important reputation of a film is not based on reviews, but on what, if anything,…