The Role Of The Artist Is To

The Characters In My Films Try To Live Honestly And Make The Most Of The Lives They've Been Given. I Believe You Must Live Honestly And Develop Your Abilities To The Full. People Who Do This Are The Real Heroes.

In Order To Find Reality, Each Must Search For His Own Universe, Look For The Details That Contribute To This Reality7 That One Feels Under The Surface Of Things. To Be An Artist Means To Search, To Find And Look At These Realities. To Be An Artist Means Never To Look Away.

But Ignorance Is A Kind Of Insanity In The Human Animal. People Who Delight In Torturing Defenseless Children Or Tiny Creatures Are In Reality Insane. The Terrible Thing Is That People Who Are Madmen In Private May Wear A Totally Bland And Innocent Expression In Public.

If I Were To Write Anything At All, It Would Turn Out To Be Nothing But Talk About Movies. In Other Words, Take 'myself,' Subtract 'movies,' And The Result Is 'zero.'

For Me, Filmmaking Combines Everything. That's The Reason I've Made Cinema My Life's Work. In Films, Painting And Literature, Theatre And Music Come Together. But A Film Is Still A Film.