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I have no advice for anyone on how to live.

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When you take a tree that is rooted in the ground, and transfer it from one place to another, the tree will no longer bear fruit. And if it does, the fruit will not be as good as it was in its original place. This is a rule of nature. I think if I had left my country, I would be the same as the tree.

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In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.

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In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.

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Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.

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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.

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I think it was [Jean-Luc] Godard who said that life is nothing but a bad copy of film, but then our ambition must be to make better films and better shapes of forms that are given in life.

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Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.

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Good cinema is what we can believe and bad cinema is what we can't believe. What you see and believe in is very much what I'm interested in.

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Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect.

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The only thing that I can do is hold a mirror in front of men and women, in front of the viewer in the theater, to reflect. There is nothing but reflection that I could intend to offer the viewer of the film.

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My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life.

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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.

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Maybe more than a teller, I am a story listener. I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind. All of my films are a collection of small stories that have been told to me.

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It's true that the best way of knowing yourself is to put yourself into different situations.

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I have no advice for anyone on how to live.

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All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.

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I think it was [Jean-Luc] Godard who said that life is nothing but a bad copy of film, but then our ambition must be to make better films and better shapes of forms that are given in life.

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I've often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it's inside a frame.

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In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.

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