I thank Henry James for the scene in the hotel room, that I stole from Portrait Of A Lady… This particular scene is the most beautiful scene ever written.

I care about cinema even though I haven't made many films.

I'm not a cineaste. I've made so few films. Sometimes it feels each one is the last one or the first one.

I don't work with people who ask me questions.

It's incredible how much cinema can do. We forget.

Every film starts with two or three images. Then I try to edit these images.

The virtual world is not the enemy. The pioneers invented a world they believed in, but the followers must follow that world whether they believe in it or not.

My films start with images, a few images and a few feelings, and I try to edit them together to see the correspondence between these images and these feelings.

Cinema is a territory. It exists outside of movies. It's a place I live in. It's a way of seeing things, of experiencing life. But making films, that's supposed to be a profession.

I'm not only my films, but I'm pretty much my films.

When I was 16 I discovered this island called cinema and I thought: 'Oh how wonderful, I'm ready.

The light must illuminate.

I hasten to laugh at everything for fear of being obliged to weep.

I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy... It's a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen.

I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't about adulation. It was being up there playing.

From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.

A simile is like a pair of eyeglasses, one side sees this, one side sees that, the device brings them together.

A man was the sum of his limits; freedom only made him see how much so.

Perseverance and perspective until victory.

This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity

In the voice of mirth there may be excitement, but in the tones of mourning there is consolation.