Cinema is movement, after all.
I've always said that to make movies, to make images and sound, is possible by one way or another. And it has not to be ruled by the Pharaohs of Egypt, the Pharaohs from Hollywood or wherever. I have tried very hard to make even a small budget picture here. It always fails. Over a dozen times. And now I know why. It was only because I wanted to be in control of the money. To spend it the way I wanted.
Hollywood was invented by hoodlums from central Europe. And today a Hollywood lawyer is not a hoodlum. He's a bureaucrat.
There is no light in electronincs. There is lightening. But lightening is not real light.
The tree or the road - the ones I know of, finally they are the only characters I know really. The human characters I don't know. So there is both something I know and something I don't know. And I put them together.
There is no such thing as intellectual property.
There is a new world coming and this new world is very rude.
There is no more discovery. Not since the beginning of this century. There are new gadgets. New important gadgets.
To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
Cinema teaches us about the human body and how we look at things.
When the film stock disappears, the matter - because movies are matter - (disappears). The laws of this have been established by Newton, Einstein, and others: there is a correspondence between light and matter, and light is matter. And energy.
The world isn't a sad place, it's just big.
I am a painter with letters. I want to restore everything, mix everything up and say everything.
The cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second.
If you have $300,000 to shoot a cigarette on a table, it's an enormous amount of money. Maybe that's why my movies are the way they are. But it's the only way I can make a living.
I had the feeling that Sarajevo was the perfect place to shoot the film I wanted to shoot. It is the perfect illustration of purgatory.
Self-portraits have been done in painting, but never in music or literature. It has no meaning, it makes no sense. And in movies I was wondering if it could. And how.
In movies, comedy and tragedy are all the same.
One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.
We once believed we were auteurs but we weren't. We had no idea, really. Film is over. It's sad nobody is really exploring it. But what to do? And anyway, with mobile phones and everything, everyone is now an auteur.
All you need to make a film is a girl and a gun
Sometimes reality is too complex for oral communication. But legend embodies it in a form which enables it to spread all over the world.
I am nowhere. You can call me the man in the middle.
Words and action in movies are the spirit or the mind. And these days the body is almost completely forgotten. In the beginning the body - nature - was more part of the action.
Film is truth 24 times a second, and every cut is a lie.
