Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.

My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.

Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.

I have always appreciated the honest brutality of the international film world. One need never doubt one's worth in the market. Mine was zero.

For me, the human face is the most important subject of the cinema.

I'm very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing.