34 Quotes by Bruno Dumont

The battle between two men over a girl is the same as the fight for two men over a piece of land. It is all about desire. There is no difference between a love triangle and the conflict between Israel and Palestine.

Good and evil are polar concepts – one can’t exist without the other.

You can’t go further than being naked.

My life is existing. Cinema is certainly not my life.

To retain his dignity, an artist must live in opposition. He must be critical of his country. If not, then he is worthless.

Cinema is all about going back from shadow to light and back and forth: cinema is a place of transgression.

There is no god. I am an atheist. It is up to us to become God. We need to be elevated, to become saints. God alienates people from themselves.

Sound creates an intimate effect: the sensation to feel the place. It makes the viewer enter. You have the liberty to hear what you want.

My thinking was that today’s spectator is so well-versed in film language that all theories about suspense, as argued by Dreyer and Hitchcock, on what makes you scared in cinema, can be ditched. It’s the spectator, finally, who’s going to construct the menace and the fear.