“I've never achieved spectacular success with a film. My reputation has grown slowly. I suppose you could say that I'm a successful filmmaker-in that a number of people speak well of me. But none of my films have received unanimously positive reviews, and none have done blockbuster business.”

“Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.”

“If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.”

“A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.”

“A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.”

“If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.”

“The destruction of this universe would have no significance on a cosmic scale.”