Everyone who makes films has to be an athlete to a certain degree because cinema does not come from abstract academic thinking; it comes from your knees and thighs.

The kinds of landscape I try to find in my films...exist only in our dreams. For me a true landscape is not just a representation of a desert or a forest. It s…

Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind; cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism.

I like to direct landscapes just as I like to direct actors and animals.