The idea of recontextualizing images from different eras to express larger ideas about modern times was very exciting to me. That archival aesthetic is the foundation of my filmmaking style.

Today with the Internet, I search for film and video archives online. It's an ever-growing moveable visual feast of delicacies from all around the world.

If we know the good we ought to do, but fail to act, we sin.

Instead of worship or ignorance of the past, we must make our own tools, our own stories, and our own legends.

You need not sit on the mountains to meditate, you can do it while having a cup of tea. If you are only focusing on tea and enjoying, you are in a state of bliss!

Don't underestimate the power of events that happened a long time ago. That is the tragic flaw of modern man.

As long as you're pushing men to stay at work, you're pushing women to stay home.

How can my old photographs fail to create in me a feeling of emptiness and sorrow? They make me acutely aware that this second deprivation will be final this time.

There's nothing like the first horseback ride to make a person feel better off.

You need to have honest things in the world. Even if people don't understand it, if it's coming from you, that's already important.

There is no stability without solidarity and no solidarity without stability.

The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of government.