Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.

I've often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it's inside a frame.

Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect.

Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.

A movie is about human beings, about humanity.

In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.

Good cinema is what we can believe and bad cinema is what we can't believe. What you see and believe in is very much what I'm interested in.

My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life.

I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!

I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.

I think it was [Jean-Luc] Godard who said that life is nothing but a bad copy of film, but then our ambition must be to make better films and better shapes of forms that are given in life.

Focus on exploring your intrinsic strengths, so as not to loose out on the virtues of life.

You'll never experience the joy and tenderness of a lifelong love unless you fight for it.

My journal has become a paper mirror, a topographic map to my mind. It is where I go to sort out confusion and decipher the invisible.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

The most important things in a friendship didn't have to be said out loud.

I certainly realize that not only do I like the horror genre, but I'm getting really good at it and I'm having a good time making them.

Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.

To me, nostalgia is nothing more than a mindless plundering of the past for the commonplace.

Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.

A statue in a garden is to be considered as one part of a scene or landscape.