Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.

Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.

We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We live entirely by the impression of a narrative line upon disparate images, the shifting phantasmagoria, which is our actual experience.

It is the great arrogance of the present to forget the intelligence of the past.

Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.