The Stalker seems to be weak, but essentially it is he who is invincible because of his faith and his will to serve others..

An artist needs knowledge and the power of observation only so that he can tell from what he is abstaining, and to be sure that his abstention will n….

My function is to make whoever sees my films aware of his need to love and to give his love, and aware the beauty is summoning him..

For me the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged by an overriding passion..

...art must must carry man's craving for the ideal, must be an expression of his reaching out towards it; that art must give man hope and faith. And ….

AN ARTISTIC DISCOVERY OCCURS EACH TIME AS A NEW AND UNIQUE IMAGE OF THE WORLD, A HIEROGLYPHIC OF ABSOLUTE TRUTH. IT APPEARS AS A REVELATION, AS A MOM….

A literary work can only be received through symbols, through concepts - for that is what words are; but cinema, like music, allows for utterly direc….

It is a mistake to talk about the artist looking for his subject. In fact, the subject grows within him like a fruit and begins to demand expression.….

Perhaps the meaning of all human activity lies in the artistic consciousness, in the pointless and selfless creative act? Perhaps our capacity to cre….

I am only interested in the views of two people: one is called Bresson and one called Bergman..

THE ARTISTIC IMAGE IS ALWAYS A METONYM, WHERE ONE THING IS SUBSTITUTED FOR ANOTHER, THE SMALLER FOR THE GREATER. TO TELL OF WHAT IS LIVING, THE ARTIS….

Why do people go to the cinema? What takes them into a darkened room where, for two hours, they watch the play of shadows on a sheet? The search for ….

The director’s task is to recreate life, its movement, its contradictions, its dynamic and conflicts. It is his duty to reveal every iota of the trut….

It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all. We should long ago have become ….

Man has, since the Enlightenment, dealt with things he should have ignored..

Knowledge is truthful only if it’s based in morality..

I have to say from the outset that not all prose can be transferred to the screen..

Art could be said to be a symbol of the universe, being linked with that absolute spiritual truth which is hidden from us in our positivistic, pragma….

The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise..

When I speak of poetry I am not thinking of it as a genre. Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality. So poetry be….

If we succeed with something, that is only because others are in need of what e have produced. And the more success we have with something, the more ….