A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.

If you look for a meaning, you'll miss everything that happens.

Unspoken feelings are unforgettable.

Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I'd say that film is the sculpting of time.

I am only interested in the views of two people: one is called Bresson and one called Bergman.

My purpose is to make films that will help people to live, even if they sometimes cause unhappiness.

Art is born out of an ill-designed world.

History is not Time; nor is evolution. They are both consequences. Time is a state: the flame in which there lives the salamander of the human soul.

Being silent for a while is good. Words can't really express a person's emotions.

Where am I when I'm not in reality or in my imagination?

Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual...

The idea of my heart dancing with delight was far too good to pass up.

What is thine is mine and all mine is thine.

The most important question a person can ask is, "Is the Universe a friendly place?

Usually redemption implies rescue - being saved. What were you being saved from?' he inquired, his voice carefully neutral. 'Ugliness.

Most dancers have no awareness of how they look; half of them think theyre fat. There is anorexia in the ballet world; there are those things.

In the same way that rain breaks into a house with a bad roof, desire breaks into the mind that has not been practising meditation.

The Internet opens up a whole new range of possibilities in a wide range of areas.

The only way we know it's true is that we both dreamed it. That's what reality is. It's a dream everyone has together.

Your problems are good. They are power in disguise.

Being privileged to work hard for long hours at something you think is worth doing is the best kind of play.