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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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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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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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I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!

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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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I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!

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

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I do believe in [Robert] Bresson's method of creation through omission, not through addition.

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I prefer the films that put their audience to sleep in the theater. Some films have made me doze off in the theater, but the same films have made me stay up at night, wake up thinking about them in the morning, and keep on thinking about them for weeks.

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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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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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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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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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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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I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.

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

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