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If I dream that I'm directing, it's not a film, it's like a commercial for cotton candy, and I've got four feet of cotton candy all around me that I've got to break through, like a brick wall or a fortress.

A lot of movies are made to make us dream.

Films are dreams. Many, many critics say to me that my films are not good because they are too unbelievable, but this is my style. I tell stories like they are dreams. This is my imagination. For me, it would be impossible to do a film that is so precise, that resembles real life.

I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.

The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater and is closer to music. It's abstract but still narrative.

You shouldn't dream your film, you should make it!

A film is a director's vision... there is, however, much input an actor or actress can have.

When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.