Filmmakers

“I prefer the films that put their audience to sleep in the theatre. I think those films are sufficiently brave to allow you an absolutely free association with what you are watching.”

“If we opened people up, we'd find landscapes. If we opened me up, we'd find beaches.”

“To be an artist means to search for, find, and look at these realities. To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes.”

“Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.”

“The allotted function of art is not, as is often assumed, to put across ideas, to propagate thoughts, to serve as example. The aim of art is to prepare a person for death, to plough and harrow his soul, rendering it capable of turning to good.”

“I'm a very selfish filmmaker. I make films for me. And then I share them with the audience.”

“慈悲是打破我们之间一切障碍。一颗对万物敞开的心。”

“Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you've got to go deeper.”

“I love to put the audience in a state of dreaming. I want people to come out of the movie theatre and feel like they need to readjust to reality.”

“你越想用理性解释一切，你对真实生活的理解就越少。”

“The more you try to explain everything with reason, the less you understand about real life.”

“All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.”

“An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal — falling like a cat, moving like a fox, holding still like a snake.”

“I would like to make a film to tell children "it's good to be alive."”

“我觉得电影不应该解释自己。人们需要自己去探索、去感受它在讲什么。”

“I feel that a movie shouldn't explain itself. People have to search, to feel what it's about.”

“No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.”

“Cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.”

“I'm interested in what's inside people. I want to photograph what can't be photographed — what's between people, what it means when they look at each other.”

“I find that the only way to get through life is to have principles — and then break them.”

“The most personal is the most creative.”

“In my films I always wanted to make people react. I've always wanted my characters to be free, to be able to talk about everything.”

“However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.”

“I just wanted to make a film that gave you the experience of living, more than telling you a story.”

“I am someone who takes footsteps very seriously.”

“Any image can be a beginning.”

“如果记忆也是一个罐头的话，我希望它的有效期是一万年。”

“If memories could be canned, would they also have expiry dates? If so, I hope they last for centuries.”

“人間の表面だけを撮ろうとしているが、その表面の最も深い層には、かなり普遍的なものがある。”

“I try to depict only the surface of human beings. But in the deepest layer of that surface is something quite universal.”