Never try to convey your idea to the audience – it is a thankless and senseless task. Show them life, and they’ll find within themselves the means to assess and appreciate it.
Juxtaposing a person with an environment that is boundless, collating him with a countless number of people passing by close to him and far away, relating a person to the whole world, that is the meaning of cinema.
Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.
The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise.
The death of childhood is the beginning of poetry.
Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I’d say that film is the sculpting of time.
Perhaps the meaning of all human activity lies in artistic consciousness, in the pointless and selfless creative act? Perhaps our capacity to create is evidence that we ourselves were created in the image and likeness of God?
An artist needs knowledge and the power of observation only so that he can tell from what he is abstaining, and to be sure that his abstention will not appear artificial or false.
Above all, I feel that the sounds of this world are so beautiful in themselves that if only we could listen to them properly, cinema would have no need for music at all.
Being silent for a while is good. Words can’t really express a person’s emotions.
Art would be useless if the world were perfect.
For me the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged by an overriding passion.
People who grow bored in their own company seem to me in danger.
We know perfectly well that neither love nor peace of mind can be bought with any currency.
I have to say from the outset that not all prose can be transferred to the screen.
Becoming an artist does not merely mean learning something, acquiring professional techniques and methods. Indeed, as someone has said, in order to write well you have to forget the grammar.
I think in fact that unless there is an organic link between the subjective impressions of the author and his objective representation of reality, he will not achieve even superficial credibility, let alone authenticity and inner truth.
An artist who has no faith is like a painter who was born blind.
Art is realistic when it strives to express an ethical ideal. Realism is striving for truth, and truth is always beautiful. Here the aesthetic coincides with the ethical.
Knowledge is truthful only if it’s based in morality.