I am a painter with letters. I want to restore everything, mix everything up and say everything.
The world isn’t a sad place, it’s just big.
I don’t know if I am free because I am happy or happy because I am free.
Reportage is interesting only when placed in a fictional context, but fiction is interesting only if it is validated by a documentary context.
Photography could have been invented in color. Colors existed.
The invention of photography. For whom? Against whom?
When you go to the cinema you look up, when you watch television you look down.
I believe what Jesus said, but Jesus never said priests couldn’t be fools.
A critic is a soldier that fires on his own men.
Europe has memories, America has t-shirts.
I make film to make time pass.
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.
To be immortal and then die.
American pictures usually have no subject, only a story. A pretty woman is not a subject. Julia Roberts doing this and that is not a subject.
Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents.
We once believed we were auteurs but we weren’t. We had no idea, really. Film is over. It’s sad nobody is really exploring it. But what to do? And anyway, with mobile phones and everything, everyone is now an auteur.
People in life quote as they please, so we have the right to quote as we please. Therefore I show people quoting, merely making sure that they quote what pleases me.
This is not a just image, this is just an image.
Movies are a world of Fragments.
Americans have no past, so they buy the pasts of others.