Film Begins With Dw Griffith And Ends

(landscapes) Are Too Close To Painting. And Tv Has Nothing To Do With Painting. It's Just Transmission. And You Can't Transmit A Landscape, Happily Enough.

I Don't Think I've Succeeded In Making Any Really Good Films. There Are Moments, Scenes, Whole Movements That Sing. It Has All Added Up To A Cinema Of Sorts, Even Though I'm Still Learning My Art.

Film Begins With Dw Griffith And Ends With Abbas Kiarostami.

The Cinema Is Not An Art Which Films Life: The Cinema Is Something Between Art And Life. Unlike Painting And Literature, The Cinema Both Gives To Life And Takes From It, And I Try To Render This Concept In My Films. Literature And Painting Both Exist As Art From The Very Start; The Cinema Doesn't.

Hollywood Was Invented By Hoodlums From Central Europe. And Today A Hollywood Lawyer Is Not A Hoodlum. He's A Bureaucrat.