I like the idea of challenging Hollywood on its own turf. It's important to do that.

- Bruno Dumont

Good and evil are polar concepts - one can't exist without the other.

- Bruno Dumont

Sex becomes violent when you eliminate all the sentiments... voila, it gets crude.

- Bruno Dumont

Cinema is all about going back from shadow to light and back and forth: cinema is a place of transgression.

- Bruno Dumont

An actor is an instrument. One needs to control them.

- Bruno Dumont

The landscape is a reflection of the inner life. Since I can't shoot the inner life, all I can shoot is the exterior but I know that when I'm filming…

- Bruno Dumont

There's a longstanding myth about the United States that is still very prevalent in Europe [despite recent developments]. Historically the "America" …

- Bruno Dumont

You can't go further than being naked.

- Bruno Dumont

My thinking was that today's spectator is so well-versed in film language that all theories about suspense, as argued by Dreyer and Hitchcock, on wha…

- Bruno Dumont