"– I was very struck by your definition of cinema: a wind-light image. Could you develop this idea further?
– This idea comes from the discovery, as the author François Jullien explains, that the word landscape, as we understand it in the Western world, does not exist in Chinese language, which instead uses either the ideogram “mountain-water” or “wind-light”. I have appropriated this idea to apply it to cinema because cinema is a language for me. And the first element of this language, the original word, is the image of a reality facing us and which differs from photography because it moves. It is literally the wind in a tree and light on those leaves that the moving image allows us to capture. If one of the two elements is missing, there is no cinematic image."