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" I have always appreciated the honest brutality of the international film world. One need never doubt one's worth in the market. Mine was zero. "

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" The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second. "

" I had a bad conscience until I discovered that having a bad conscience about something so gravely serious as leaving your children is an affectation, a way of achieving a little suffering that can't for a moment be equal to the suffering you've caused. "

" The anger and the creativity are so closely intertwined with me, and there's plenty of anger left. "

" If I didn't have my profession, I think I would be sitting in a nuthouse. But I have been unceasingly at work, and this has been very healthy for me. So I had no need for therapy. "

" People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it. This answer seems to satisfy everyone, but it is not quite correct. "

" Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls. "

" I think that for some time now I have been living with an anxiety which has had no tangible cause. It has been like having a toothache, without the conscientious dentist having been able to find anything wrong with the tooth or with the person as a whole. "

" Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death. "

" I am forever living in my childhood. "

" I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful. "

" If I don't create, I don't exist. "

" We didn't know that Mother had gone through a passionate love affair or that Father suffered from severe depression. Mother was preparing to break out of her marriage, Father threatening to take his own life. "

" I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect. "

" I was very much in love with my mother. She was a very warm and a very cold woman. When she was warm, I tried to come close to her. But she could be very cold and rejecting. "

" We always regret that we did not ask our parents more, really get to know them while they were alive. "

" I am normally afraid of birds and have never dreamt of any bird in my life. "

" The smallest wound or pain of the ego is examined under a microscope as if it were of eternal importance. The artist considers his isolation, his subjectivity, his individualism almost holy. "

" For me, the human face is the most important subject of the cinema. "

" Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father. "

" When you're as chaotic as I am, you need a very firm structure in your life. "

" My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires. "

" I have a feeling of complete balance. The sea, the house, the loneliness, the light. Everything is clearer. Much more precise. I have the feeling that I am living on a limit, and I'm crossing that limit sometimes. "

" I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images. "

" I make all my decisions on intuition. "

" Now I want to make it plain that 'The Virgin Spring' must be regarded as an aberration. It's touristic, a lousy imitation of Kurosawa. "

" I was bloody ill-tempered when I was young. "

" I hope I never get so old I get religious. "

" There is something joyous about not talking. "

" I usually say I left puberty at 58. "

" Aging is not uncomplicated. Creativity is an extraordinary help against destructive demons. "