#director quote

I see it as my duty to stimulate reflection on what is essentially human and eternal in each individual soul, and which all too often a person will pass by, even though his fate lies in his hands. He is too busy chasing after phantoms and bowing down to idols. In the end everything can be reduced to the one simple element, which is all a person can count upon in his existence: the capacity to love. That element can grow within the soul to become the supreme factor, which determines the meaning of a person’s life. My function is to make whoever sees my films aware of his need to love and to give his love, and aware that beauty is summoning him.

I consider establishing shots an abdication of style; an abdication of stylistic responsibility. I want every shot to do at least two things, and establishing shots, by their very nature, do one thing.

Juxtaposing a person with an environment that is boundless, collating him with a countless number of people passing by close to him and far away, relating a person to the whole world, that is the meaning of cinema.

I don't think we've seen any cinema yet. I think we've seen 100 years of illustrated text.

No matter how many obstacles that are thrown in our path, there are ways to accept them and to live through them. Understand life's mysteries, as mysteries to be lived.