"Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read...if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker."

"Am I in the wrong place here, or in the wrong life? Did I not recognize, as I sat in a train that raced past a station and did not stop, that I was on the wrong train, and did I not learn from the conductor that the train would not stop at the next station, either, a hundred kilometers away, and did he not also admit to me, whispering with his hand shielding his mouth, that the train would not stop again at all?"

"You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates."

"For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory."

"Amos Vogel was a mentor, a guiding light for me. In his presence, you always rose. But his importance to me is of minor significance. What is significant is that with him an entire epoch ends. The Last Lion has left us.I am still not capable – or rather unwilling – to understand the fact that Amos passed away, because a man like him cannot be dead. His traces are everywhere.(on the passing of Amos Vogel, his friend for more than 45 years)"

"One of the most original and poetic works of cinema made anywhere in the seventies."