A film you can explain in words is not a real film.

When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.

A film that can be described in words is not really a film.

A man who renounces something is also a man who believes in something.

A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own.

Often to understand, we have to look into emptiness.

You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.

The greatest danger for those working in the cinema is the extraordinary possibility it offers for lying.

My work is like digging, it's archaeological research among the arid materials of our times. That's how I understand my first films, and that's what I'm still doing...

Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.

I always mistrust everything I see, which an image shows me, because I imagine what is beyond it. And what is beyond an image cannot be known.

Ask. Trust. Give thanks. Simple right?

Search not for happiness outside yourself, for nothing could be further from the truth.

For years I dreamed of having the sort of massive oak slab that would dominate a room...

If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juice middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end.

It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species.

There is... nothing greater than touching the shore after crossing some great body of water knowing that I've done it with my own two arms and legs.

I used to get drunk in venues after my shows and sign the walls "Ed was here." So if you see that, it was me.

I'm terrified of improv. Improv in a show or in front of an audience sounds terrifying.

With a nation at war against terrorism and our men and women on the front line defending our homeland from abroad, resources need to be prioritized and allocated properly.

The reason or motivation you have for making money or creating success is vital.