I Want An Actor To Try To

My Work Is Like Digging, It's Archaeological Research Among The Arid Materials Of Our Times. That's How I Understand My First Films, And That's What I'm Still Doing...

I've Always Played Down The Drama In My Films. In My Main Scenes, There's Never An Opportunity For An Actor To Let Go Of Everything He's Got Inside. I Always Try To Tone Down The Acting, Because My Stories Demand It, To The Point Where I Might Change A Script So That An Actor Has No Opportunity To Come Out Well.

Take Einstein; Wasn't He Looking For Something Stable And Changeless In This Enormous, Constantly Changing Melting Pot That Is The Universe? He Sought Fixed Rules. Today, Instead, It Would Be Helpful To Find All Those Rules That Show How And Why The Universe Is Not Fixed - How This Dynamism Develops And Acts. Then Maybe We Will Be Able To Explain Many Things, Perhaps Even Art, Because The Old Instruments Of Judgment, The Old Aesthetics, Are No Longer Of Any Use To Us - So Much So That We No Longer Know What's Beautiful And What Isn't.

I Can't Give Any Absolute Definition Of What Love Is, Or Even Whether It Ought To Exist.

I'm More Or Less Skeptical About Marriage, Because Of Family Ties, Relations Between Children And Parents - It's All So Depressing.