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I do other sorts of things. I act in other people’s movies. I direct operas. I write books.

With actors, normally I don’t like to have any conversation about background and about motivations and all this.

Americans believe that they are normal, that they make sense, and that the rest of the world is exotic. They do not seem to understand that they are the most exotic people in the world right now.

There’s a completely new culture out there. I’m not a participant of texting and driving – or texting at all – but I see there’s something going on in civilization which is coming with great vehemence at us.

What’s really bad is that after acknowledging a wrong decision, I don’t have the nerve to turn back, since I’d rather correct myself with another wrong decision.

There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If you’ve got Tom Cruise as a strongman, I’m sure it would have larger audiences, but it wouldn’t have the same substance.

It is only through writing that I become myself.

Along with this rapid growth of forms of communication at our disposal – be it fax, phone, email, Internet or whatever – human solitude will increase in direct proportion.

In a way, I managed to get the deepest things, the best things out of people. That’s why I’m a filmmaker. If you don’t have it in you, you’d better do something else.

I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has capital punishment.

I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I’m good at that.

I think a state should not be in the capacity of killing anyone with the exception of warfare.

What have we done to our images? What have we done to our embarrassed landscapes? I have said this before and will repeat it again as long as I am able to talk: if we do not develop adequate images we will die out like dinosaurs.

My contacts with the film industry can be described in very simple terms: The industry does not really need me, and I do not really need the industry.

I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting.

I am fascinated by the idea that our civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.

I am so used to plunging into the unknown that any other surroundings and form of existence strike me as exotic and unsuitable for human beings.

I’m a very circumspect and prudent person, and I eliminate danger as far as it can be done.

I work very fast and steadily, and I don’t hardly ever notice that I’m working. It feels like just breathing or walking when I do films.

One of the most original and poetic works of cinema made anywhere in the seventies.

I am somebody who creates images, with my perspectives, fascinations and my instincts as a narrator. You have to activate the audience’s imagination. If you are just giving them scientific results, they would forget the film in five minutes flat.

If you don’t have a deal in two days, you won’t have a deal in two years.

Women have a very good sense for seeing instantly what constitutes a good man. Not physically. The physical strength is only a small side of it.

It’s a great metaphor. For what? I don’t know to this day. But I know it’s a great metaphor.

I’m a very professional man. I’m not out for the experience of adventure.

It happens sometimes that the material itself carries things you have not fully planned. The footage has its own right, its own life, its own vibrancy and energy in it.

There are specific times where film noir is a natural concomitant of the mood. When there’s insecurity, collapse of financial systems – that’s where film noir always hits fertile ground.

You can fight a rumour only with an even wilder rumour.

I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard.

There’s more substance in my prose and my poetry than in all my films together. Writing is a more direct way of expressing yourself because, in cinema, you always have finances, organization, actors, technical apparatus and all that stuff coming in between.

You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise.

For me, the distinction between documentaries and feature films is not so clear – my “documentaries” were largely scripted, rehearsed, and repeated, and have a lot of fantasy and concoction in them.

I am not an artist and never have been. Rather I am like a craftsman and feel very close to the mediaeval artisans who produced their work anonymously and who, along with their apprentices, had a true feeling for the physical materials they were working with.

I don’t care whether the person is guilty or not guilty. It’s not my business to establish guilt or innocence. It’s a court of law that does that and a jury does that, but not me.

I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade unprecedented in the history of cinema.

In Germany, you would be hanged if you cracked a joke about Hitler and you would be killed by the state if you were insane in a project of euthanasia.

I live my life outside of the glitz and glamour of the red carpet events, and so you’ll never see me there. I’m never at parties.

I shouldn’t make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum.

I see planets that don’t exist and landscapes that have only been dreamed.

I function better in the jungle in Amazonia or Antarctica or Alaska or the Sahara desert. An artificial environment like a studio has never attracted me. I could work in a studio, but I would never really feel at home.

Without dreams we would be cows in a field, and I don’t want to live like that. I live my life or I end my life with this project.

I don’t spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews.

Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.

English is a really wonderful language and I urge you all to investigate it.

There is never an excuse not to finish a film.

If your project has real substance, ultimately the money will follow you like a common cur in the street with its tail between its legs.

I do whatever pushes me hardest. It’s coming at me and I try to. It’s like uninvited guest and I have to wrestle them out the door or through the window – get them out and get over with them quickly.

The collapse of the stellar universe will occur – like creation – in grandiose splendor.

I have always postulated that we have to find a new way to deal with reality. It’s not so much facts that interest me, but a deeper truth in them – an ecstasy of truth, an ecstatic truth that illuminates us. That’s what I’ve been after.

I like to direct landscapes just as I like to direct actors and animals.

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