34 Quotes by Bruno Dumont

I think that the cinema is a physical thing. What I'm looking for is creating a physical shock with the audience. I don't care of the meaning. I don't care of the idea. I don't want to say something. I want to make a 'shock physique.'

Women exist in my imagination. So they are necessarily a type of abstraction. Many women criticise me for this vision, but I explain to them it's to be expected, because I am a man.

You can't create a movie as you think about it. And what's in the scene is not what's being seen. A shot always means something other than what it is. All are vehicles. A landscape is just a vehicle. The viewer might think different things, and I'm not going to intervene.

I think there's not a lot of real filmmakers. There are only a few people who make real cinema. I can count them on my fingers.

No movie can claim to be a work of philosophy. They fulfill a totally different need in people.

Cinema is made to film material: the body. By filming the material, the mechanical, the worker, we arrive at the spiritual.

I feel I have a political duty to reach out to the general public. I want to make films that the people want to see. So if the people want to see Johnny Depp or Tom Cruise, then it is really my job to incorporate them into my films.