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

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

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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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I think being someone in love is so hard to define, so temporary, because retrospectively we often deny the state in which we were in love.

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I think that in life, being is nothing but an illusion. If we acknowledge that and accept the fact that we are in between states, that we are moving, and this movement is the nature of our lives, and we stop having aspirations for being in a definite state, we know life better and are able to enjoy it better.

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