Aesthetics

“Não fiz um filme sobre o Cinema Novo, mas com o Cinema Novo.”

“その「表現」のみに力点を置く描法をとっています。”

“If you don’t overdirect your models and you focus on their physical presence, interesting things often happen.”

“I want to popularize gymnastics—it’s the sport closest to the arts that we have.”

“舒服、好看、表达，衣服对我来说就是这样的。”

““Precision, economy of statement, logic employed to ends that are disinterested, drawing and identifying, liberate ... the imagination.””

“Not mixed, but shining through each other, like blood through natural skin.”

“Art also is a kind of language – but it’s a language of feeling.”

“Making films that are liked isn’t the be all and end all.”

“If a pebble or an egg can be enjoyed for the sake of its shape only, it is one step towards a true appreciation of sculpture.”

“Les éloges de mon physique me servirent à comprendre qu'il fallait le combattre.”

“From the moment you get on a theater stage, from the moment you go up there, on this stage, you become a poem.”

“I prefer my vision until the artist shows me otherwise, which they often do.”

“Because I am an artist, and in the kind of art I believe in and to which I have given my whole allegiance, there is no place for anything that has to do with social, economic or political problems.”

“To make a film is easy, to make a good film is war. To make a very good film is a miracle.”

“It goes out for a walk, so to speak, aimlessly for the sake of the walk.”

“His work ought not to be a dead imitation of things without the power to impress a sentiment, or enforce a truth.”

“The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real.”