I Make Film To Make Time Pass.

In The Beginning There Was Not Even Talking. In Movies, There Was No Need For That. Because It Was More Evident If There Was No Talking. Only In Sports Does There Remain This Fervor, Which Can Even Become Violent. There's This Desire To See Something Big.

Film Is Truth 24 Times A Second, And Every Cut Is A Lie.

One Can Be A Good Critic And A Moral Observer, But One Remains Professionally Detached As A Writer And A Filmmaker.

In Films, We Are Trained By The American Way Of Moviemaking To Think We Must Understand And 'get' Everything Right Away. But This Is Not Possible. When You Eat A Potato, You Don't Understand Each Atom Of The Potato!

Through Most Of My Career I've Made A Decent Living Making Movies No One Wants To See.