“American cinema is international like the fairy tales were international.”

Bergman was the first to bring metaphysics – religion, death, existentialism – to the screen. … But the best of Bergman is the way he speaks of women, of the relationship between men and women. He’s like a miner digging in search of purity.

A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.

We really are living in the era that all this sci-fi literature and cinema was centered around.

Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.

The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.

Movie queens diffuse into Cinema haze, while libertines read pornozines in street cafes.

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.

I think that’s so powerful and cinema and TV has so much power.

The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.