he's a simple man:
I don’t need 20 pairs of shoes. I have a car that I've had for 12 years. It's fine, I enjoy life and things are very basic. I don't have social networks in the Internet for example. I don't even have a cell phone. I'm probably the last holdout. (...) I just don't want to be available all the time. I love to connect with people but in a more fundamental way. I never go to parties, but I invite friends and I cook for them. We sit around a table, maximum 6 people, because if there are more people there is no space around the table. And when we speak to each other, everyone speaks about the same topic. Whereas when you are at a party, there are 200 people and loud music and in each corner there is a different topic, and small talk.
he said people cannot read:
Most are illiterates, even though they know how to combine letters and make phrases and so on. I say: Consuming the Internet, TV, and even cinema makes you lose the world. Only by reading can you gain the world.
and he said this about Godard:
Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.
he inspires me both with his maxims about cinema:
There are deeper strata of truth in cinema, and there is such a thing as poetic, ecstatic truth. It is mysterious and elusive, and can be reached only through fabrication and imagination and stylization.
and about life itself:
Follow your vision. Form secretive rogue cells everywhere. At the same time, be not afraid of solitude.
