We have to articulate ourselves. Otherwise we would be cows in the field.
I think a state should not be in the capacity of killing anyone with the exception of warfare.
A fairly young, intelligent-looking man with long hair asked me whether filming or being filmed could do harm, whether it could destroy a person. In my heart the answer was yes, but I said no.
I am someone who takes everything very literally. I simply do not understand irony, a defect I have had ever since I was able to think independently.
The punishment itself is something I respectfully disagree with, but for thousands and thousands of years it was practiced everywhere.
If your project has real substance, ultimately the money will follow you like a common cur in the street with its tail between its legs.
Along with this rapid growth of forms of communication at our disposal – be it fax, phone, email, Internet or whatever – human solitude will increase in direct proportion.
Tourism is a mortal sin.
For me a true landscape is not just a representation of a desert or a forest. It shows an inner state of mind, literally inner landscapes, and it is the human soul that is visible through the landscapes presented in my films.
Money doesn’t make films. You just do it and take the initiative.
If you do not have an absolutely clear vision of something, where you can follow the light to the end of the tunnel, then it doesn’t matter whether you’re bold or cowardly, or whether you’re stupid or intelligent. It doesn’t get you anywhere.
I’m a very circumspect and prudent person, and I eliminate danger as far as it can be done.
I know for sure that there is only one step from insecticide to genocide.
There is never an excuse not to finish a film.
If you don’t read, you will never be a filmmaker.
One of the most original and poetic works of cinema made anywhere in the seventies.
I work very fast and steadily, and I don’t hardly ever notice that I’m working. It feels like just breathing or walking when I do films.
When you look at the paintings at Chauvet Cave, they’re not primitive or like children’s little scribbles, it bursts on the scene fully accomplished and when you look through the faces of cultural history, art history, it has never gotten any better.
It’s all movies for me. And besides, when you say documentaries, in my case, in most of these cases, means “feature film” in disguise.
We live in a society that has no adequate images anymore, and if we do not find adequate images and an adequate language for our civilization with which to express them, we will die out like the dinosaurs.