What is art? (...) Like a declaration of love: the consciousness of our dependence on each other. A confession. An unconscious act that none the less….

The artist has a duty to be calm. He has no right to show his emotion, his involvement, to go pouring it all out at the audience. Any excitement over….

If there are some who talk the same language as myself, then why should I neglect their interests for the sake of some other group of people who are ….

I think in fact that unless there is an organic link between the subjective impressions of the author and his objective representation of reality, he….

MORE CONSISTENTLY THAN EVER I WAS TRYING TO MAKE PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT CINEMA AS AN INSTRUMENT OF ART HAS ITS OWN POSSIBILITIES WHICH ARE EQUAL TO THOS….

We know perfectly well that neither love nor peace of mind can be bought with any currency..

Objectivity can only be the author's and therefore subjective, even if he is editing a newsreel..

When less than everything has been said about a subject, you can still think on further. The alternative is for the audience to be presented with a f….

A man writes because he is tormented, because he doubts. He needs to constantly prove to himself and the others that he’s worth something. And if I k….

No 'mise en scène' has the right to be repeated, just as no two personalities are ever the same. As soon as a 'mise en scène' turns into a sign, a cl….

Some sort of pressure must exist. The artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn’t….

Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality..

If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for them: that you simply want to coll….

IN THE CINEMA A DIRECTOR EXPRESSES HIS INDIVIDUALITY FIRST AND FOREMOST THROUGH HIS SENSE OF TIME, THROUGH RHYTHM. RHYTHM GIVES COLOUR TO A WORK BY D….

Clearly the hardest thing for the working artist is to create his own conception and follow it, unafraid of the strictures it imposes, however rigid ….

MANY MANAGE TO SEPARATE THEIR LIFE FROM THEIR FILMS. THEY LIVE ONE WAY AND EXPRESS OTHER IDEAS IN THEIR WORKS. THEY ARE ABLE TO SPLIT THEIR CONSCIENC….

Juxtaposing a person with an environment that is boundless, collating him with a countless number of people passing by close to him and far away, rel….

What nobody seems to understand is that love can only be one-sided, that no other love exists, that in any other form it is not love. If it involves ….

My purpose is to make films that will help people to live, even if they sometimes cause unhappiness..

The film [Stalker] needs to be slower and duller at the start so that the viewers who walked into the wrong theatre have time to leave before the mai….

Art is realistic when it strives to express an ethical ideal. Realism is striving for truth, and truth is always beautiful. Here the aesthetic coinci….