To be or not to be. That’s not really a question.
All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun.
Photography is truth.
A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.
People like to say, ‘What do you mean exactly?’ I would answer, ‘I mean, but not exactly.’
He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.
Film begins with DW Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami.
Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man.
The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn’t.
When we talked, I talked about me, you talked about you, when we should have talked about each other.
Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.
To live in society today is like living in one enormous comic-strip.
It’s not where you take things from – it’s where you take them to.
Why all these signs around us that make me doubt language and submerge me in meanings, drowning reality instead of extracting it from the imaginary?