“I dont like the idea of understanding a film. I dont believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception of any work of art. Either a film has something to say to you or it...”

“There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life. ”

“When I felt I was dying, these past few days, things were no longer anthropomorphic. The telephone, which looks like a sort of upturned black snake, was merely a telephone. Every thing was just a t...”

“Im a liar, but an honest one. People reproach me for not always telling the same story in the same way. But this happens because Ive invented the whole tale from the start and it seems boring to me...”

“If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something.”

“An artist is a provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one. Its this in-between that Im calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible w...”

“In a universe where all life is in movement, where ever fact seen in perspective is totally engaging, we impose stillness on lively young bodies, distort reality to dullness, make action drudgery. ...”

“If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter. ”

“When you're a kid all you know is that your dad puts on his suit or overalls and vanishes from your life until nightfall. Sometimes my pops came back exhausted and scarlet-eyed, as if he'd been eng...”

“Naught but leaves brushed in the wind, stemming from the forest behind my house. Oh, and of course, the wildlife seized every chance to tell the stars who they were; they hooted, howled, and growle...”

“I dont have a philosophy: I have senses...If I talk about Nature, its not because I know what it is,But because I love it, and thats why I love it,Because when you love you never know what you love...”

“I have been wrongly accused; and you, ma'am, and everybody else, will now think me wicked.""We shall think you what you prove yourself to be, my child. Continue to act as a good girl, and you will ...”