Sex and the City is the opposite of dignity. You have to have dignity for your body - this is with men and women.
An object dies when the gaze that lights on it has disappeared.
Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.
I will have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering, which is not the opposite of forgetting, but rather its lining. We do not remember. We rewrite memory much as history is rewritten. How can one remember thirst?
Nothing sorts out memories from ordinary moments. It is only later that they claim remembrance, when they show their scars.
In another time I guess I would have been content with filming girls and cats. But you don’t choose your time.
When men die, they enter history. When statues die, they enter art. This botany of death is what we call culture.
The secret to living in the rush of the world with a minimum of pain is to get as many people as possible to string along with your delusions.
We're all who we are endlessly.
People say to me, "You make fantastic films" and I say, "No, I make documentaries.
I don't really ever worry about what anyone else does and I certainly don't worry about what anyone else says about me.