"Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours t…"

"When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way…"

"People ask what are my intentions with my films — my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually gi…"

"In this profession, I always admire people who are going on, who have a sort of idea and, however crazy it is, are pu…"

"I want very much to tell, to talk about, the wholeness inside every human being. It's a strange thing that every huma…"

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

"I make all my decisions on intuition. I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army …"

"I am very much aware of my own double self... The well-known one is very under control; everything is planned and ver…"

"I was very cruel to actors and to other people. I think I was a very, very unpleasant young man. If I met the young I…"

"Say anything you want against The Seventh Seal. My fear of death — this infantile fixation of mine — was, at that mom…"