The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

The cinema is not a craft. It is an art. It does not mean teamwork. One is always alone on the set as before the blank page. And to be alone... means to ask questions. And to make films means to answer them.

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.

I had the feeling that Sarajevo was the perfect place to shoot the film I wanted to shoot. It is the perfect illustration of purgatory.

Clumsiness attempts to fix simplicity straight in the eye. It is not a mark of incompetence but of reticence.

To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body -- both go together, they can't be separated.