"I take seeds from reality and plant them in the film."

"Films are like houses that withstand time magnificently-if they are well constructed."

"But it's impossible to tell what it is about art that can produce divinity. Art is not a luxury, but a vital need."

"You can't look for poetry. You find it in what's left out, in what is suggested."

"No,but I believe in the flashes of insight,or of intuition,during production.Editing is the real moment of creation,the possibility of lucidity and precision.When all of the elements- images,voices,sounds,silence- find their exact place within the whole,links are revealed between them.It's these links that can make life suddenly irrupt."

"Music plays an additional role for me.wich is to prepare for silence.Because you'II see that there are silences in my film."

"I won't Claim that my performers speak exactly as we speak in life,but I will Claim that they speak truthfully."

"The drama was that there was no drama."

"I see my films as exercises,as attempts,as efforts toward something I'm trying to understand but that,whenever I think I'm getting close,recedes."

"That's because poetry and truth are sisters. Contrary to what we seem to believe, poetry on-screen is not born from an ensemble of poetic images or from a poetic text, but from an ensemble- or, more accurately, a combination-of details that are true."