Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers.
Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.
I think that high art reposes on popular art, without one there cannot be another.
I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.
I do not say with words. I do not say it with images either. … I do not say, I show. I show people who move and speak. That is all I know how to do, but that is my true subject.
But if I didn't read, I'd think, and thinking, when you come down to it, is the most painful thing of all, and the most monopolizing
You have to know how to go against the trend of the times.
Accumulating years in the act of living is no guarantee of maturity. In fact, it is possible to be born, grow old and die without ever maturing.
To accept the inevitable; neither to struggle against it nor murmur at it-this is the great lesson of life.
The real secret of success is enthusiasm.
I didn't want to break with my family. I wasn't about to make waves. But I had this feeling I wanted to do something that I liked to do. Acting's what I liked to do most. There must have been a moment when I felt, 'Oh, my God, I like this and what am I going to do about it?