The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to. As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail. You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all.
My parents allowed their two sons to be individuals. My family was a wild and wonderful place, with lots of friends and neighbors visiting and talking loud and eating loud and nobody telling the children to be quiet or putting them down.
I won't make shorthand films, because I don't want to manipulate audiences into assuming quick, manufactured truths.
I think I probably have the philosophy of a poor man. You know, like maybe I'd steal the pennies off a dead man's eyes.
The idea of love as a mysterious, undiscovered world has come to have no place in our innermost imagination.
I'm a great believer in spontaneity because I think planning is the most destructive thing in the world.
