All Art Is Autobiographical; The

No Critic Writing About A Film Could Say More Than The Film Itself, Although They Do Their Best To Make Us Think The Oppposite.

We Must Get Beyond Passions, Like A Great Work Of Art. In Such Miraculous Harmony. We Should Learn To Love Each Other So Much To Live Outside Of Time... Detached.

Like Many People, I Have No Religion, And I Am Just Sitting In A Small Boat Drifting With The Tide. I Live In The Doubts Of My Duty.... I Think There Is Dignity In This, Just To Go On Working.... Today We Stand Naked, Defenseless, And More Alone Than At Any Time In History. We Are Waiting For Something, Perhaps Another Miracle, Perhaps The Martians. Who Knows?

Fate Is Written In The Face.

As I Don't Consider Myself Exceptional, But Simply A Storyteller, Each Of My Stories Is Really A Period Of My Life. Deep Down I Feel That Criticism Of My Work-which Is The Most Sincere And Authentic Vision Of Myself-is Unsuitable And Immodest, Whether It Is Favorable Or Unfavorable.